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Cloudflare is finally deprecating Railgun… about time!

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  • June 13, 2023 at 9:12 pm #6115
    Sandra
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    this clunky thing was always an obnoxious feature used by shared hosting companies to pretend like they were better

    June 13, 2023 at 9:13 pm #6116
    Shirley
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    https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-railgun/

    June 13, 2023 at 9:20 pm #6117
    Steven
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    hallelujah!

    June 13, 2023 at 9:22 pm #6118
    Walter
    Guest

    Honestly I never really understood what it did. It was like for cPanel web hosts to say they had a special CDN or something that is normally for Cloudflare premium customers.

    June 13, 2023 at 9:24 pm #6119
    Richard
    Guest

    oh Railgun? it was for Hostgator to launch missiles at China

    June 15, 2023 at 2:21 pm #6149
    Peter
    Guest

    hbhb

    June 15, 2023 at 3:24 pm #6150
    Rachel
    Guest

    I’m pretty sure Railgun was just the same as Argo routing, but “free” for certain Cloudflare web hosting partners as some marketing tactic. Now they probably don’t really need any marketing help anymore, and want to monetize Argo for more customers.

    Looky here

    https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-smart-routing/

    June 15, 2023 at 3:56 pm #6159
    Gary
    Guest

    Argo is kinda weird for me. I tried it for some projects and had issues. It seems to cache things in WordPress and caused some problems

    June 15, 2023 at 3:57 pm #6160
    Natalie
    Guest

    interesting viewpoint

    https://blog.hawkhost.com/2023/03/07/hawk-host-cloudflare-railgun-end-of-life/

    they wrote:

    Cloudflare recently deprecated the Cloudflare plugin in cPanel, which we announced in June 2022. At the same time, we were advised that Cloudflare’s Legacy Host & Reseller Partner Program would end, and an announcement about the Cloudflare Railgun would be forthcoming. Unfortunately, that announcement was never made, and our attempts to have Cloudflare provide official guidance on the situation have never happened. The Cloudflare Host & Reseller Partner Program is now shut down, and sadly that also means Hawk Host’s ability to properly maintain the Railgun systems has been removed.

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