Hi Ryan,
As long as others are benefiting and not bothered I am happy to answer your questions.
When setting up Distil you are able to allocate a specific record (subdomain) or the entire zone (domain) to be delivered through our cloud. This allows you to segregate what traffic you would like us to serve and what content you would like to handle through other delivery mechanisms. Distil honors all no cache and cache control directives allowing you to easily customize what content we cache even if we are serving your entire site. Additioanlly we do not cache any dynamic file types ensuring that fresh content always functions properly. Location based content will continue to function correctly because our service continues to pass the end user's IP through the host headers.
Clients are able to reduce their infrastructure after migrating onto our platform however it is important to note that you cannot downgrade to a $5 shared hosting and expect the same results. Distil is able to reduce your server load by 50%-70% but the remaining 30%-50% will still be handled by your backend so you need ensure any hosting you use can still handle that.
Our specialty is dealing with bots and all of our security measures surrounding that protection are automated. Any security concerns outside of that scope will be handled reactively with each individual client.
Our service is constantly adapting to ensure that we provide a holistic solution and we go far beyond the suggestions mentioned above. Distil is set up to adapt intelligently on its own as it uncovers new bots and we also are always adding new algorithms to catch bots. I do not want to say we are bot proof but we will catch well over 95% of bots and will quickly adapt to catch and stop any new derivates.
Similar to most other cloud or CDN type services Google Analytics will not be impacted at all.
Amazon offers cloud computing where as Distil offers a managed security solution in the cloud. We utilize several cloud providers, including Amazon, for our infrastructure but what makes Distil unique is the software running on that infrastructure. Amazon simply provides the computing power, we provide the intelligence to catch and stop malicious bots from scraping your website and ensure your content is protected.
Rami Essaid
www.distil.it