Leave Cloudflare enabled, Cloudflare still provides you with the tuneable WAF functionality that Fastly doesn't.

Thanks for the reply, I suppose WAF makes sense to have. What does the chain look like in that case, is it still CF -> Fastly -> RW?

Exactly what you put in your root message.

Client -> CF -> Fastly -> Railway Proxy -> Service - if you want to get technical

And there's no way to remove Fastly from the picture when using CF?

I'm just worried about there being two points of failure, and extra hops.

There is no way for the user to disable Fastly, but two points of failure is a valid concern, and a very real problem, given that Fastly is currently withdrawn from our edge due to issues they experienced.

Though the extra hops concern is not an issue in practice, Fastly holds connections open to our edge, so there is no extra overhead from having to establish a connection per request.

I meant more from the CF->Fastly hop, but tbh we're not seeing too much of a latency increase on our dev setup at the moment, so we'll see how it goes.

Also wdym fastly is withdrawn? 🥺 Is my CDN cache kaput?

Fastly runs the CDN, so without Fastly the CDN functionality doesn't work.

Just to clarify - will requests hit Fastly or not?

Not at this time, Fastly is withdrawn.

Hmm, okay, was there an announcement or something that I missed? Had a search but can't find. Also is there any estimation on when it might resume? It's just that we're planning a migration in the coming weeks and I'd like to be prepared for any changes that may impact our user experience.

You didn't miss anything, and I am unable to provide an ETA. Sorry.

No worries, I appreciate your help!

Though, just out of concern for other users, should that not be communicated? We're okay because we do have CF providing us with a CDN, but if that were not the case post-migration, we would have been killed by egress fees - we have thousands of static assets (x1000s of users).

I agree, it would be great to receive notifications regarding planned Fastly outages. This would allow us to take measures to switch over to Cloudflare. After all, Fastly outages on your end occur constantly literally every week.