Compare Cloudflare Waiting Room vs. Fastly

Unexpected spikes in traffic can strain your applications and infrastructure, resulting in sluggish performance or even total disruptions to your digital services. Cloudflare's Waiting Room feature enables businesses to direct surplus users to a customized waiting area, safeguarding the customer experience while preventing origin servers from becoming overloaded with requests. This ensures that your online transactions remain unaffected by any downtime or reduced application efficiency during high traffic periods. The waiting room serves as a representation of your brand, providing users with a smooth online experience even while they wait. By utilizing this solution, you can avoid the expenses linked to maintaining extra servers and acquiring additional bandwidth for peak traffic demands. Furthermore, the Waiting Room minimizes wait times by intelligently managing incoming traffic. As soon as a user exits the application or their cookie times out, a new user is granted access. You can also set activation thresholds based on either the rate of incoming traffic or the number of active users, allowing for tailored management of user flow. This adaptability helps maintain operational efficiency while delivering a consistent user experience.

Today's top edge cloud platform empowers developers, connects with customers, and grows your business. Our edge cloud platform is designed to enhance your existing technology and teams. Our edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer towards your users -- at a network's edge -- to improve the performance of your websites and apps. Fastly's highly-programmable CDN allows you to personalize delivery right at the edge. Your users will be delighted to have the content they need at their fingertips. Our powerful POPs are powered by solid-state drives (SSDs), and are located in well-connected locations around world. They allow us to keep more content in cache for longer periods of time, resulting in fewer trips back to the source. Instant Purge and batch purging using surrogate keys allow you to cache and invalidate dynamic content in a matter of minutes. You can always serve up current headlines, inventory, and weather forecasts.