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Brant Tedeschi
Personal blog · x-pose.orgstartupsweb
Brant Tedeschi's personal blog at x-pose.org covers startups and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in CloudFlare threads as supporting material, with posts on CloudFlare customer testimonies, response-time tests, and a Google PageSpeed service review. Commenters cite them as sources rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Nothing new, this is all just repackaging. This is all just basic CDN proxy tech all providers (including CF) had for years. Giving it a cool name, dose not make it new or exiting. Here are some helpful links - CF customer testimonies: http://x-pose.org/2012/02/speed-up-your-site-disable-cloudfl... http://www.husdal.com/2011/07/01/incapsula-versus-cloudflare...
Comment linking /2012/02/speed-up-your-site-disable-cloudflare/
on “Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun”Submitted Google PageSpeed Service Reviewed as a story · 49 points
HN discussionAwesome thread. I recently made a post about startup costs and what services I use. I even provide a cost breakdown for each one, bringing my grand total monthly bill to $295. Hopefully its useful to some. http://x-pose.org/2011/10/the-cost-of-running-a-boot-strappe...
Comment linking /2011/10/the-cost-of-running-a-boot-strapped-startup/
on “Online services our startup subscribes to”Submitted Your Hate for Google is Misguided as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI don't really understand Cloudflare's problems with latency. When using FULL CDN+Optimizations the entire site's HTML and assets should be cached and served super fast via cloudflare. That is the best case scenario for them to speed up load times. But based on my testing, Cloudflare adds more latency to response times even in a best case scenario of full caching. However, when I do the same exact type of optimizati…
Comment linking /category/cloudflare/
on “Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.”Submitted The best start-ups are companies you've never heard of as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFYI2: http://www.x-pose.org/2012/12/google-pagespeed-service-revie...
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on “Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.”Submitted About the AI Apocalypse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFYI: http://www.x-pose.org/2012/06/cloudflare-response-times-are-...
Comment linking /2012/06/cloudflare-response-times-are-getting-worse
on “Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.”Submitted Screw Facebook Paper. Create Personal Wikis. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI linked to what GoogleBot thinks of Cloudflare. http://x-pose.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/topiama-googleb... Cloudflare response times to the far left and PageSpeed response times to the far right. I'm not sure what else to say.
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on “Google PageSpeed Service Reviewed”Submitted Why I'm Sticking with Google Chrome as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Analytics Tracking Change on March 20th? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook’s First Premium Feature: Profile Wiki’s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cost of Running a Startup can get out of control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudFlare response times are getting worse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do my coding habits match yours? A look at my Github punch card. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 8 is better than you think as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Search Engine Sucks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted As the web gets smarter, your privacy will continue to decrease over time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet is our playground. We are its users. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it hard to be use logic? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fix the WordPress SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS Bug as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I switched from Intercom to Crisp and will save $5000 annually and gain features as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing/Configuring the Latest WAMP Stack under Windows 7+ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I run a bootstrapped Fantasy Sports Startup, here are my monthly expenses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compared the top Fantasy News sites to find out if any of them care about speed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google can't create accurate Instant Preview screengrabs for Twitter or Gawker. as a story · 1 points
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