Why isnt steam using Cloudflare/Fastly like all normal sites and instead that slow ass garbage akamai?

[Customer Care Specialist]

Steam pages loading slow...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Pages are loading pretty quickly over here.

[Klrmebad]

It's was fast, but few weeks it been really slow here.

[Theblaze]

Автор сообщения: Marie

It's was fast, but few weeks it been really slow here.

That was pretty much always the case when there was a big sale on steam.

[Phantom]

Perhaps you should consider changing your DNS settings if page-loading is an issue.

Some default ISP DNS are rubbish as well, and i won't be surprised if that's the situation for you.

I've configured Cloudflare's private DNS on my router, and it has done wonders.

Akami tends to get wacky yes - but it's still a viable CDN.

Be happy that Steam even utilizes a CDN - in which case, they are compelled anyway.

[Customer Care Specialist]

Автор сообщения: Robin3sk

Perhaps you should consider changing your DNS settings if page-loading is an issue.

Some default ISP DNS are rubbish as well, and i won't be surprised if that's the situation for you.

I've configured Cloudflare's private DNS on my router, and it has done wonders.

Akami tends to get wacky yes - but it's still a viable CDN.

Be happy that Steam even utilizes a CDN - in which case, they are compelled anyway.

:cozycsgoctwhite:

Im using 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1 DNS which is also by Cloudflare and according to some internet graphs its some milliseconds faster than Googles DNS so yeah thats not the problem.

Also my connection is fine i have up to 1000mbit/s down by cable.
Literally 8k video on youtube loads and buffers almost instantly.

All sites that use that garbage akamai including their own site akamai.com is slow as ♥♥♥♥ and complete ass like its hosted on budget VPS for 10$ a year,

while all other pages load pretty much instantly as they should.

[Satoru]

If you think Akamai is slow then you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about

[Darren]

So the reason is...because you are using Cloudflares DNS.

https://www.sajalkayan.com/post/cloudflare-1dot1dot1dot1.html

Explains and shows tests with Akamai showing it is faster with other DNSs.

[8ullfrog]

Cloudflare can eat it.

[ペンギン]

Valve is already using "fastly"...at least partly... in their software... Examples which are used in "steamwebhelper.exe"

151.101.112.193
limited-prod.giphy.map.fastly.net
prod.imgur.map.fastlylb.net

[Winged One]

Switch your DNS

[Crashed]

You don't want Cloudflare, they do business with crooks. I'd agree with 8ullfrog, especially after reading the website http://crimeflare.org:82 .

I personally use OpenDNS, which just like Cloudflare claims to be, is supposed to be faster than ISP DNS, and with the added advantage of (1) malware/content filtering and (2) getting rid of my ISP's NXDOMAIN search redirect.

Most of the time it takes to load a Store page is the HTML, and Cloudflare (or even Fastly) won't do a thing about it for a logged-in user, because it has to invoke the server's software to generate the page.

With that said, Valve should consider asking Akamai to turn on HTTP/2 on their nodes in order to boost parallelism; see https://http2.akamai.com/demo for a demo.

[Meat]

akamai okay