[Sandra]

this clunky thing was always an obnoxious feature used by shared hosting companies to pretend like they were better

[Shirley]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-railgun/

[Steven]

hallelujah!

[Walter]

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.

[Richard]

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

[Peter]

hbhb

[Rachel]

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/

[Gary]

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

[Natalie]

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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