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The more popular it becomes, the more incentive there is for other companies to enter the space and grab a chunk of the money. The barriers to entry are not ins

The more popular it becomes, the more incentive there is for other companies to enter the space and grab a chunk of the money. The barriers to entry are not insurmountable for e.g. existing CDN companies to start offering DNS, WAF and DDOS mitigation products, making them more like Cloudflare. They already have the peering/hosting relationships and engineering teams experienced at working with large volumes of traffic. I wouldn't be too worried about Cloudflare taking over the internet this early on.

TheSisb2 11y ago
To continue with your point, we use https://sucuri.net/ https://sucuri.net/ where I work because it has such a great set of tools and extension for our Wordpress blog, which kept getting hacked. Lots of space in this area.
- dangrossman 11y ago
  Good example: "Sucuri is Building a Comprehensive Alternative to CloudFlare" http://wptavern.com/sucuri-is-building-a-comprehensive-alternative-to-cloudflare http://wptavern.com/sucuri-is-building-a-comprehensive-alter...
steckerbrett 11y ago
Is there reason for people to enter a market with a single obvious leader though? I got the impression that making peering agreements with people on any sort of scale was a bit of a bear. It is already quite ubiquitous, a surprising number of websites use it even if it's not completely obvious, reddit.com has some sort of stealth configuration that bypasses the normal DNS setup for example.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  > Is there reason for people to enter a market with a single obvious leader though? Were there not search engines before Google? Isn't AWS the cloud computing "leader" while Google is trying to break into the space? There is no such thing as an obvious leader, only juicy prey waiting for the next hungry org to eat its lunch. > I got the impression that making peering agreements with people on any sort of scale was a bit of a bear. Hardly. Peering agreements are of similar difficulty level as any vendor negotiation, whether it be with a specific network or an interconnection fabric (IXP).
- manigandham 11y ago
  That's how the market works... otherwise we wouldn't have any new companies if everyone gave up before competing with the big guys. There's a lot of potential to do better against anyone.

TheSisb2 11y ago

To continue with your point, we use https://sucuri.net/ https://sucuri.net/ where I work because it has such a great set of tools and extension for our Wordpress blog, which kept getting hacked. Lots of space in this area.

dangrossman 11y ago
Good example: "Sucuri is Building a Comprehensive Alternative to CloudFlare" http://wptavern.com/sucuri-is-building-a-comprehensive-alternative-to-cloudflare http://wptavern.com/sucuri-is-building-a-comprehensive-alter...

steckerbrett 11y ago

Is there reason for people to enter a market with a single obvious leader though? I got the impression that making peering agreements with people on any sort of scale was a bit of a bear. It is already quite ubiquitous, a surprising number of websites use it even if it's not completely obvious, reddit.com has some sort of stealth configuration that bypasses the normal DNS setup for example.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
> Is there reason for people to enter a market with a single obvious leader though? Were there not search engines before Google? Isn't AWS the cloud computing "leader" while Google is trying to break into the space? There is no such thing as an obvious leader, only juicy prey waiting for the next hungry org to eat its lunch. > I got the impression that making peering agreements with people on any sort of scale was a bit of a bear. Hardly. Peering agreements are of similar difficulty level as any vendor negotiation, whether it be with a specific network or an interconnection fabric (IXP).
manigandham 11y ago
That's how the market works... otherwise we wouldn't have any new companies if everyone gave up before competing with the big guys. There's a lot of potential to do better against anyone.