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A client I built the infrastructure for pushes about 50Mbps. Not up to your level, but I can at least give some suggestions and input for Cloudflare. We basically switched all of our sites to use Cloudflare after running a few of the largest through them for a year plus.

During that time there was a total of one Cloudflare related outage and that was resolved within about 15 minutes by their changing the data-center the site(s) were routed through. I can tell you that one of the greatest benefits you will see with Cloudflare as it stands currently is that your bandwidth utilization is going to go down substantially. Before switching to Cloudflare we were pushing a good deal more than 50Mbps. Essentially if you were to switch I have to imagine your side of the bandwidth utilization is going to drop to somewhere around 75-90Mbps if not more.

That said, understand what you're getting into. This is a 'cloud' service and they require you to switch your DNS records to their service. All things considered, running a multi-million dollar business through them has been much smoother than anticipated... this new feature we will be looking at very carefully as well because about half or more of our content cannot be cached.



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