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Reputation: 413

What service is better to speed up website Cloudflare or AWS Cloudfront?

Hi I have a Drupal website with images in each news articles it's a news website.

I'm debating whether to use Cloudflare or AWS Cloudfront..

Can the experts here advise me which service is better to speed up my site especially for mobile visitors?

Thanks so much!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 760

Answers (2)

David Taiaroa
David Taiaroa

Reputation: 25485

My opinion is that in general CloudFlare and Amazon AWS will both give excellent results and will be similar if you are only comparing how they reduce latency by serving static content from a data centre closest to your site visitors.

CloudFlare's paid plans include Polish and Mirage (beta) which both claim to improve mobile performance by optimising images and customising page delivery based on device specifics and network speed.

If mobile performance is a priority for you, an option you could consider is the free CloudFlare plan + hosting on a server with Google's PageSpeed module. In my experience, PageSpeed gives excellent results, it's low maintenance, and included in its filters are options like resize_mobile_images which does just what it says.

Good luck!

Upvotes: 2

Rez Moss
Rez Moss

Reputation: 4604

I highly recommend AWS CloudFront.

To deliver content to end users with lower latency, Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations for content delivery. Amazon CloudFront edge locations are located in:

United States

Ashburn, VA (3) Atlanta, GA Chicago, IL Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (2) Hayward, CA Jacksonville, FL Los Angeles, CA (2) Miami, FL New York, NY (3) Newark, NJ Palo Alto, CA San Jose, CA Seattle, WA South Bend, IN St. Louis, MO

Europe Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2) Dublin, Ireland Frankfurt, Germany (3) London, England (3) Madrid, Spain Marseille, France Milan, Italy Paris, France (2) Stockholm, Sweden Warsaw, Poland

Asia

Chennai, India Hong Kong (2) Mumbai, India Manila, the Philippines New Delhi, India Osaka, Japan Seoul, Korea (3) Singapore (2) Taipei, Taiwan Tokyo, Japan (2)

Australia

Melbourne, Australia Sydney, Australia

South America

São Paulo, Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Read more about Cloudfront

Upvotes: -1

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