HACKER Q&A
📣 gtech1

Global non-HTTP CDN provider


Can anyone recommend a service that:

1. Has great worldwide premium networking ( no Comcast! )

and either:

2. allows me to run a VPS at their edge locations

or

3. provides a service that allows me to connect back to our own DC via the proxy protocol

Context: tried a number of vps providers: vultr, linode, etc where I run haproxy but their infrastructure is flaky, there's no SLA. I need to proxy non-http traffic.

I checked out HAProxy Edge but their own network isn't very quick from the locations I'm interested in ( mainly Asia -> NA ).

I also checked out Fly.io but saw 5 errors in 5 minutes from trying to deploy an app/machine so I backed out.

  👤 jcat123 Accepted Answer ✓
Hey, I work at HAProxy. Want to reach out to me in a DM on https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakubsuchyus/ and I'll see if I can connect you with our Edge team to see what we can do about your Asia -> NA needs?
👤 solardev
If your use case requires custom networking and a SLA, isn't that a situation to just go with one of the big clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure) or else rent a VM or colo at a local data center?

The consumer-facing CDNs usually cache HTTP traffic at edge nodes because there's a standard pattern for it. If you're doing something different, you can probably go to a lower level of networking and abstractions?