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+1 - I am also very interested why they chose to switch out from CloudFlare for both their DNS and their CDN and over to Fastly. Nick Craver did a write up where they specifically mentioned [1] Cloudflare for both their DNS and CDN.

Do you think after the Dyn outage everyones sysadmins are running round adding redundancy, too worried to trust the uptime of their site in the hands of just CloudFlare?

[1] http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc...

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dx034|9 years ago

The fact that they abandoned Cloudflare only 6 months after this post means that they must've been pretty disappointed. I wonder if this is the same reason as for some of the other pages that went to Fastly from Cloudflare (e.g. Imgur).

hehheh|9 years ago

It could also be due to some mundane detail like the service's cost.

deno|9 years ago

tl;dr: Javascript/Google reCaptcha Paywall.

Source:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/323537/cloudflare-i...

matt4077|9 years ago

They have a DNS service which can be used independently of their caching.

fstd|9 years ago

Can't believe they're running on Windows. Yikes.