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Are you interested in a free HTTP cache SaaS?

1 points by darkweak ↗ HN
Hello guys, I'm working on a cloud native HTTP cache SaaS to bring to users the availability to get their content cached. I plan to release that as free during the beta (to benchmark and see edge cases or bad implementations) and probably have a pricing depending the storage amount and type. The price will pay the servers themselves, and if we set more users than expected on one server we will dynamically decrease the subscription price. What do you think about that? Do you have any recommendations/expectations?

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PaulHoule
How is this different from Cloudflare and other CDN?
darkweak
Cloudflare doesn't really cache your data, it requests a lot your upstreams, doesn't act as a private cache. If you send any authenticated requests it won't serve cached content even if it could store and serve the cached response. Then a CDN is a Content Delivery Network. It's designed to serve as fast as possible static content and if your upstream doesn't return the appropriated HTTP headers it can't be stored.
KomoD
Not really, I already use Cloudflare, also free.
darkweak
Cloudflare doesn't really cache your data, it requests a lot your upstreams, doesn't act as a private cache. If you send any authenticated requests it won't serve cached content even if it could store and serve the cached response.