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I typically find myself off set with every new Cloudflare offering, followed by wondering if they are reaching for a niche outside of DDOS protection. I'm not
by _eht 9y ago
I typically find myself off set with every new Cloudflare offering, followed by wondering if they are reaching for a niche outside of DDOS protection.
I'm not in a position to explore a need for Cloudflare outside of hiding my origin IP addresses, but for those of you who are, are you actually using and benefiting from the wide array of offerings from Cloudflare? As it stands now, I see these announcements and make a mental note to expect a slough of marketing emails in my inbox for the next couple weeks.
- manigandham 9y agoYes, they have plenty of customers benefiting and are one of the few companies that are constantly innovating with new features, especially with content delivery performance and security. As much as I dislike network consolidation into a handful of companies, there are not many real competitors for the features and value of Cloudflare.
- snaky 9y agoSpeaking about consolidation, sometimes it looks like AOLv2 (or MSNv2) is coming, with Cloudflare on transport layer, Google on WWW layer on top of it, and Facebook on social layer on top of it.
- _eht 9y agoI thought I made it clear that I realized that when I asked for other people's opinions.
- _eht 9y agoNice edit. Were the downvotes getting to you?
- manigandham 9y agoNope.
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- eugeneionesco 9y agoI basically use Cloudflare for dns management, they make it so easy....
- thinkMOAR 9y agoI use a ton of registrars, almost all have equal simple dns management as CF. Which requires a party less to use or leak traffic information to.
- _eht 9y agoWhat is the turnaround time for DNS to propogate on all of those registrars? Are you forced into waiting for TTL's to expire? I may be wrong but I think eugeneionesco is referencing instant DNS changes which come as a benefit of using Cloudflare and other large DNS management companies. I've never personally seen a registrar offer anything like that.
- eugeneionesco 9y agoAlmost instant DNS change is something that I kinda take for granted. Surprising that's so rare...
- mugsie 9y agowell ... the protocol was designed not do that. DNS is "just" a globally distributed, eventually consistent, key:value store, with a ton of caching built into it. Also, while it may look instant to you, it may not be to your customers / users / other internet people.
- always_good 9y agoIt's instant because CloudFlare isn't changing DNS records, just where its pointers point to. Look at it / try it.
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- OliverJones 9y agoI believe DDOS-repelling service is an intended consequence of their global CDN, not its purpose. Its purpose is speeding things up for users.