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Recommend a CDN with referrer blacklisting?

lonepress

lonepress

Chevereto Member
I want to allow hotlinking to my CDN, but have the ability to block specific abusive referrers.

MaxCDN will let you do this (and all kinds of other custom rewrite rules) with their Edge Rules feature, but it costs $200 a month. Their referrer whitelist is free, go figure.

Does anybody know of a CDN that will let you create a referrer blacklist for little or no extra cost?
 
I found a couple possibilities...

CDNsun and CND77 both allow blocking by referrer, IP address, or country, and you can have a whitelist or blacklist for each one, for free. Both of them also answered my email within 15 minutes on a Saturday night. CDN77 requires you to contact support to enable or change blacklisting settings, though, which is not great.

MaxCDN took 3 days to get back to me with details. That plus the $200 per month charge leaves me not too impressed. I have an open email out to KeyCDN with no response after a few hours.

I'm thinking to try CDNsun first, once I start getting a reasonable amount of traffic (using Amazon CloudFront now, which is expensive and not really configurable).

Would still love to hear about anyone's experiences with these CDNs.
 
I use MaxCDN and works lovely. I haven't try other cheaper alternatives.
 
Yeah, MaxCDN seems great, but $200 a month for blacklisting is kind of a dealbreaker at this point. Will let you guys know how my experience goes.
 
Perhaps Cloudflare (one of their paid plans)?

I've used MaxCDN and Cloudflare with Chevereto.
MaxCDN wasn't doable, too expensive with the bandwidth I was using.

Cloudflare, it didn't do well with new uploads (dynamic content being cached and what not). I'm going to give them another shot when the new Chevereto update comes out (remote storage).
 
I still can't understand how people can label Cloudflare in the same CDN category as Cloudfront, MaxCDN, etc. Is not even close to be the same thing. Ok, is some kind of CDN but not the same as a full real CDN and is very intrusive. Besides of the poor performance I think that the biggest issue is that the ddos protection is a joke.

For less money that you will need to spend in some Cloudflare paid plan you can add additional FTP servers and block / allow anything you want using server side rules, put nginx, cache, ModSecurity and that's all. (Well, almost... FTP support will be added in the next release).

I believe that the only thing that keeps Cloudflare alive is the free plan but after already tested the enterprise plan I won't recommend it to anyone.
 
Rodolfo said:
I still can't understand how people can label Cloudflare in the same CDN category as Cloudfront, MaxCDN, etc. Is not even close to be the same thing. Ok, is some kind of CDN but not the same as a full real CDN and is very intrusive. Besides of the poor performance I think that the biggest issue is that the ddos protection is a joke.

For less money that you will need to spend in some Cloudflare paid plan you can add additional FTP servers and block / allow anything you want using server side rules, put nginx, cache, ModSecurity and that's all. (Well, almost... FTP support will be added in the next release).

I believe that the only thing that keeps Cloudflare alive is the free plan but after already tested the enterprise plan I won't recommend it to anyone.
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I somewhat agree with you, Cloudflare concentrates on more than just a CDN, but it is still a CDN to a certain degree nonetheless. Their service isn't that bad, compared to some networks with poor routing, they actually provide faster loading speeds abroad. They're slower than the servers you'd have from one of their country nodes, but it is still a cheaper solution than going with another CDN provider.

I've personally never used them for their DDOS protection, so I wouldn't know about that.

As for labeling Cloudflare and MaxcDN in the same category.. Rodolfo, I remember a time when people wouldn't even label MaxCDN in the same category with Edgecast and Akamai 😛. It is really a matter of perspective. If I had enough (read: a lot of) money at my disposal, I wouldn't go with Cloudflare either 😉.
 
I can comment on what CDN.net has. It has both a generic country-based black list and the ability to block specific domains through hot linking protection. Which may or may not be what you need. It's included off the bat.

Other than a recent outage I had with them (even their main site was down) I rather like them.
 
What i ended up doing with openstack storage was setup reverse proxy which then goes through CDN in my case cloudflare.
 
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