Do any other CDN providers have similar technology as Railgun?

cbsmith · on July 2, 2012

Good question. The answer should be obvious, as CloudFlare presents this for the innovative and ground breaking technology it is...

[end sarcasm]

So yeah, basically almost all of them have it. Most have had it for years. CDN and various other business models (POP's, etc.) have been converging for a while now, so this has become pretty standard for CDN's to provide.

ksec · on July 3, 2012

Really? Well may be they are for the big boys, none of the commonly used CDN advertise it, All Hosting providers reselling Level 3, Akamai, EdgeCast, NetDNA or even Amazon Cloudfront dont show it either.

I wonder why these aren't available to normal users.

cbsmith · on July 4, 2012

Not sure about Amazon and NetDNA, but the rest certainly offer it.

Igal_Zeifman · on July 4, 2012

Exactly right. This all just marketing spoof a way to justify recent re-distribution of paid plans. For those who consider CF, know that they are a good company, but they should focus of product quality and not just of Marketing and PR. For a better alternative I advise to check Incapsula. Here is a head-2-head user review of both platforms. http://www.husdal.com/2011/07/01/incapsula-versus-cloudflare...