2013: Rebuild the Engine; 2014: Step on the Gas

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26 points·jgrahamc··5 comments

Great to see they are planning to roll out SSL (perfect forward secrecy) even to the Free Tier.

These days with SSL certs becoming ridiculously cheap (hard to beat Free), I wish everybody would just go enable HTTPS by default. But the extra configuration is a pain for the average "webmaster".

By using Cloudflare and a simple switch, you will be able to get totally SSL'ed from the feet up. Love it! Soon I will be able to easily SSL all my 30 odd toy sites on Cloudflare!

The most interesting part of this for me was "China is our second largest market, Brazil is our third", yet they only have one datacentre in CN (in HK), and none in the whole of South America.

Great to see they are addressing this, along with the poorly connected African markets where a locally deployed CDN can greatly benefit the speed of a website.

I think it's fairly difficult for a US-based company to (legally) operate out of a mainland China data centre. So it looks like they are doing the next best thing: multiple Asian data centres which are "near" to China.

It is not that hard if you abide by the Chinese Laws and System. But that is more of a problem with Ethics and Business practices. I also think there are some technical issues with GF of China.

China is tricky for a number of reasons, but we think there's a better than even chance we can operate from inside the country in 2014.

Latin America makes Asian networking look easy. Combine that with the extremely high import fees on equipment sent into a country like Brazil (150% duty in some cases) and it's a challenging region to operate in.

What I'm excited about is we've figured most these issues out and are moving forward to dramatically expand our network.

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