- CacheFly has no easy trial to sign up for - Fastly has no DNS - CDN77 has no DNS - Google, Amazon, Azure are stand alone CDN
There doesn't seem to be a good alternative? Or, am I missing something?
If you must have DNS bundled with the other stuff, your options are... way less limitless.
It really depends on your use case and volume.
I’m not surprised at all: No public information on pricing & “contact sales” buttons.
They don’t really seem to cater to small to medium sites.
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<div class="mb-5 mb-lg-0 text-center text-lg-start">Cloudflare has been taking a more expansive view of a CDN, but bunny.net seems to be going in that direction as well. They're offering CDN, DNS, storage, and video so far.
I think most CDNs are at least trying to do this. I suspect the margins on nice-to-haves attached to CDN are way higher than heavily-commidified CDN on its own. Plus it gives you a deeper moat and much stronger lock-in.
It's not a drop-in replacement, but relevant to the conversation here.
Haven't used it yet but it's increasingly on my radar.
Cheers!
Not really sure what exactly you are looking for and at what price point, but Google and AWS both have domain registration and WW highly available DNS services.
I too am interested in what competing services are available to protect dns / routing from DDoS..
Without cloudflare protecting the server ip / DNS, it only takes a few people using [script name] to essentially make a web site inaccessible (via Denial or Service attacks).
If many people want to brigade and create DDoS against a site it can be impossible for people to use it to communicate with it / through it.
Not sure there is a good / strong enough alternative, and not sure what the average / semi strong alternatives are at this time actually.
You can replace lots of their functionality with a variety of competitors but they also have some truly unique features you can't find elsewhere.