[AusNOG] AAPT Routing Issue

Nick Stallman nick at agentpoint.com
Fri Dec 29 15:04:45 EST 2017


Do remember that Cloudflare *does* buy transit if you pay them.

The peering only policy only affects free and Pro plans, not Business or 
Enterprise.

I believe they use different IPs for the plans specifically so they can 
do this.


On 29/12/17 15:04, Chad Kelly wrote:
>
> On 12/29/2017 12:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
>> Related, this means that if you have sites behind Cloudflare (who do 
>> peer with IX) as a CDN / DDoS protection for example all your traffic 
>> routes off-shore with TPG & Friends -
> The simple solution to this is to switch to a CDN provider who don't 
> care about having to buy transit.
> The downside is unlike Cloudflare you will need to pay for bandwidth, 
> however if you are on the Business plan with CF then switching away  
> will likely work out significantly cheaper for Au bandwidth, as the 
> pricing is $200 USD a month with CloudFlare but you can get a bunch of 
> others significantly cheaper.
> Regards Chad.
>

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