Hello everyone. I've been a somewhat outspoken proponent of Fastly, and for good reason. They've been incredibly helpful and generous with hosting Infosec.Exchange. Moving Infosec.Exchange behind Fastly about a year ago was the single biggest improvement I've been able to bring to the Infosec.Exchange community in its more than 7 years of existence. No, I don't get paid by them to say this (or for any other reason), we just a good deal through their Fast Forward program on their services.
Today, Fastly asked me to help announce their new free tier developer accounts, which has been an oft-requested feature of them. You can find info on that free tier here: http://fastly.com/pricing and the announcement is here: http://fastly.com/instant
I don't generally like to plug things, but I have to tell you that I've been incredibly impressed by Fastly's service and their people. If you're a developer looking for CDN services, or otherwise in the market for CDN services give Fastly a look.
@jerry@devs
I've also had good experiences with Fastly, and I'm not even a customer. We were having some performance issues with an external site and I emailed their support. They not only responded, they went into detail about how we could improve our performance and why. I did not expect that as just some random guy via email.
@jerry@devs Whoever decided to put this feature on the pricing page deserves a pat on the back:
> No charge for additional users—invite the whole team, or invite all but one person and cause some drama
@jerry@devs Bitwarden switched to Fastly recently and the only thing I've been quite sad about is that IPv6 support is not turned on (I suppose, by default)...
@jerry@b0rk@devs Interesting, how are they compared to Cloudflare? I’ve been aware of Fastly only in passing but have always defaulted to Cloudflare. They seem mostly similar- WAF, CDN, static site hosting and so on.
It's getting expensive to fund all these out of pocket, and as it stands I may have to limit myself to Pixelfed only if we can't get more financial support.
@dansup not financial but @devs has the fast forward program with which their offer there services (like CDN) for free for open source projects that qualify