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Comment by boulos | Hacker News Reader

I'm not the OP, but I'm not sure why they included MaxCDN and Fastly but not (at least) CloudFlare's free service.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine (though I had nothing to do with this service).

OP here: You are right, CloudFlare would have been nice and in retrospect we should have added it. I think it would have fared quite nicely as during all the tests we do on regular basis its doing really well.

Irony = their site is on CF.

  $ whois speedchecker.xyz
  Domain Name: SPEEDCHECKER.XYZ
  Name Server: LEE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
  Name Server: PAM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

I think the OP just added CloudFlare when the site was overloaded earlier...

yes. That is true. We did not expected the post will get that popular. Unfortunately, it was all done too late. What helped us the most was that blog is hosted on DigitalOcean VPS. We scaled up to the most powerful instance and instantly the blog was back. Kudos to DigitalOcean, it saved our bacon big time today :)

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