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Nothing against Cloudflare, but I don’t think it is good in general for the Internet that they are getting so critical. For them this sounds like a good deal (
by jpalomaki 8y ago
Nothing against Cloudflare, but I don’t think it is good in general for the Internet that they are getting so critical.
For them this sounds like a good deal (is money involved here?). Having more control of DNS should mean they can provide better service for their customers.
- telmich 8y agoAgree - cloudflare probably does a good job here, but again: centralisation is making the Internet weaker. Also hands even more control into one entity's hands
- foepys 8y ago> For them this sounds like a good deal (is money involved here?). There is a lot of money involved. When you resolve DNS only over Cloudflare, all Cloudflare sites will have a much lower DNS resolution time than any domain that is not hosted by CF's DNS service. CF can also do geo DNS more efficiently, potentially saving millions in edge nodes.
- wild_preference 8y agoCloudflare shows how broken the internet is. For example, imagine a world where you would clearly see that your computer or toaster were used in a botnet because it showed up in your billing. DDoS wouldn’t be $5 anymore. Saying Cloudflare ruins the decentralized internet got the events out of order.