Historical provider.
Current availability of the listed service is not confirmed. Acquired by Webscale in 2023-10-19.

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Overview

Section.io built a platform for placing workloads across edge and cloud infrastructure. Its developer offering focused on orchestration rather than only byte delivery.

  • Distribute application services closer to users.
  • Use underlying infrastructure providers through a coordinated platform.
  • Operate performance and security workloads such as the historical Wallarm deployment.

Webscale announced its acquisition in October 2023 and introduced CloudFlow for Kubernetes orchestration. Existing customers should confirm current support and migration options for their account.

Network

Section’s historical platform used underlying edge/cloud infrastructure providers for workload placement. A compute region, workload site and CDN cache are different locations.

Ask the account operator for currently deployed regions and serving locations. Confirm deployed regions, failover, origin paths and residency requirements with the account operator.

Past features

Historical platform

Section placed workloads across distributed infrastructure, including third-party security software. The deployed application and modules determined what each account could do.

Current Webscale services

Webscale advertises application-aware caching, WAF, traffic controls and monitoring for commerce hosting. For an older Section deployment, check the supported modules, APIs and migration steps with the service team before moving it to a current plan.

Service status

Webscale acquired Section.io in 2023 and introduced CloudFlow for Kubernetes orchestration. Confirm contract continuity and support before changing an existing deployment.

  • Inventory origins, modules, state, secrets and workload placement.
  • Identify which settings belong to the platform and which belong to deployed software.
  • Test cache behavior, security rules, logs and failover on the proposed replacement.

A replacement may need both orchestration and an HTTP caching service. Test configuration portability and agree on the migration steps before moving a workload.

History timeline

  • October 19, 2023 — Webscale announced the acquisition of Section.io and launch of CloudFlow.

Budgeting for a replacement

Legacy accounts

Obtain current Section account terms before budgeting. A distributed-compute bill can include compute, replicas, transfer and platform operations; monthly delivery bytes alone are insufficient.

Successor comparison

Webscale’s commerce hosting plans start at USD 499/month for Essentials and USD 1,199/month for Scale; Enterprise is quoted. Resource sizing, features and optional add-ons affect the final price. These hosting bundles are not a published Section per-GB tariff.

Use the calculator for replacement delivery and add separate compute, support and fixed platform costs. Check commitment and migration costs before comparing totals.

Historical integrations

Existing Section workloads

Confirm the console, API credentials, module versions, deployment process and support path for your contract. The parent site still links to the Section console; test the APIs needed by your account before changing the integration.

Webscale projects

Webscale documentation covers a Control Plane API, Web Controls and container-image build workflows. Review these as successor integrations before planning a port. Ask for supported automation and SDK migration steps for the selected service.

What to know

  • Existing Section deployments needing an accurate contract and support transition.
  • Distributed workloads whose placement and modules require explicit evaluation.
  • Commerce teams separately evaluating current Webscale hosting/delivery bundles.

Planning a replacement

For an existing Section workload, confirm current support, module versions and supported migration steps. For a new Webscale project, compare the full hosting bundle and its included security and monitoring, rather than only delivered GB.

History

Section was founded in Sydney in 2012 and moved its headquarters to Boulder, Colorado in 2016. Its April 2021 announcement reported a USD 12 million Series B and described its vendor-independent edge platform.

Webscale announced the acquisition on October 19, 2023 alongside CloudFlow. The present Webscale site still links to a Section console. Existing customers should check current support and migration options with the service team.

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