Needs your thoughts about a new project I am going to work
Hie Makers, So let me introduce myself first. I'm Ankit, a webperf enthusiast. So I want to launch a managed CDN service for all Indie developers and growing web geeks.
Now why my CDN and not Cloudflare(free) or any other budget solution?
- Its managed an custom optimized for your needs.
- Would surely be cheap(approx. 5USD for 100GB)
- Established CDN provider on back-end so the infrastructure is well managed and built.
- Bandwidth rollover.
Do let me know what you guys think about this?
IMO, CDN is all about trust / reliability and usability. I care less about pricing and "custom optimized" if the trust/reliability is not there. (Trust is a long term process, you'll need months/years to establish it)
To win, you'll need to be more trustworthy than Cloudflare and easier to use… It will probably be hard :/ Cloudflare and other established products are already cheap, reliable and customizable!
I don't see any problems to fix here! Cheaper is not better…
Hope it helps, Good Luck! :)
I completely understand that issue that's why I would be using a well established CDN provider in backend so even if i move out of this business the customer won't be affected.
@ian I won't be using Cloudflare(it's a reverse proxy service not s proper CDN), I'll use a CDN provider like Cloudfront or CDN77 and I'm pretty sure I will be able to provide a better response time and speed.
Also "Configuration as a Service" sounds pretty cool, thanks for that btw.
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Still a bit lost about the added value part. What part is "managed" and most of the time, managed means that some additional work is being done which takes time and will add to the cost. People are using CDN because they have a lot of traffic and if they have a lot of that, they probably have someone with the experience to manage a CDN. So whats the business case here?
Sometimes small businesses need a CDN but they either implement it poorly or don't implement it.
I plan to provide a solution to that.
I have an idea for you. I'm using Cloudinary (Images CDN), It's so costly, maybe can you fix it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
That’s a cool idea I can add that service but that adds up the cost. Maybe I can provide that as an addon. I need to check if people are ready to pay extra 15-20 usd per month(still would cost less than Cloudinary) apart from cdn usage fee. Are you using their paid plan? What all are the most used features?
Resize images from URL query eg: xxxxxx.com/images/duck.jpg?width=200
Connect with S3 bucket
A nice way to browse images with easy URL copy/past
I used to pay but the price was too high (99$ / month is a joke), I decided to stop resizing and move to DigitalOcean S3 ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@ian that’s achievable. What monthly price does sounds fair to you? If you get a solution to resize image using query type url and easy connection to s3 bucket.
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