Re: Eggs and baskets
> If you want to just "try" them, unless you shell out for a Business sub, you're going to have an issue
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> but then you can get that with the likes of Akamai and other CDN providers with far fewer trade-offs.
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> TBH, unless you're going to be using the "free" account, I'd skip them - even their $20/mo offering doesn't stack up against the competition.
I'd be interested to see someone just casually try out Akamai. Fill out a form, spammed by enterprise sales to gauge how much to charge, sign NDA, a week later you're up and running and then need to contact your account manager to change a settings. Comparing a Cloudflare $20 plan with Akamai (at least $1k per month, likely $50k) is quite optimistic. Akamai is not an option for anyone but enterprise.
As a Cloudflare user for various projects I'm always interested in checking out the competition at the $20/mo level so please elaborate! I have used Fastly in the past but bandwidth quickly became incredibly expensive. Again I'd certainly not put them in the small business bracket.
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