Fastly CDN

What hackers pick instead

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• Bunny.netA cheap, pay-as-you-go European CDN with edge scripting, popular as a Cloudflare alternative, though critics cite a data-loss bug downplayed for 15 months and a poorly handled security incident.121recommend
• Amazon CloudFrontRecommended for cheap, fast content delivery with a free tier and tight S3 integration. Critics note its SLA is only three 9s.24recommend
• Cloudflare CDNPeople recommend it for a free CDN tier with no bandwidth fees, speed and reliability; critics object to its centralizing power and its traffic inspection.12recommend
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The 15 most detailed of 17 comments. Each links to the original.

1. once allowed us to be featured in a very large newspaper without worries, extra expenses, or extra work

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to”

2. outsourcing that to Cloudflare or Fastly or Fly.io or whomever is a reasonable strategy

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting”

3. If it has to be performant, secure, scaled worldwide, and always-on, it uses Fastly.

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)”

4. lambdas front ended by cloudflare or fastly are great

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “AWS Webhook Serverless Ingestion”

5. Fastly (US) and BunnyCDN (EU) are excellent options

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?”

6. their fastly CDN not reply to us on IPv6 from the other side of the ocean for some weird reason

   Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Google Hits 50% IPv6”

7. Cloudflare/Fastly/Akamai refuse to talk to me before they can grab a unique fingerprint

   Criticizes · May 2026 · in “How you probably will find Satoshi”

8. all the other cdn providers do this too, like akamai, fastly, cloudflare, etc.

   Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts”

9. did not notice it was only responding 502s until PyPI alerted them

   Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “PyPI Blog: Incident File Hosting Errors”

10. we needed a CDN with particular features and Fastly was a better fit.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Three of our worst VC stories”

11. Cloudflare and Fastly to do roughly the same thing

    Mixed · May 2026 · in “I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now”

12. Fastly, the CDN they use, should get the credit.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “GitHub's Historic Uptime”

13. Going to Fastly's site I see egress costs that makes me think I could probably be better of just staying on AWS

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “GoSign Desktop RCE flaws affecting users in Italy”

14. Fastly accepted the blackmail that Cloudflare refused

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block”

15. fastly-hosted services are a bit awkard to configure

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network”