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Site owners can turn off the captcha by reducing the security level. I understand why it exists, I just wish they didn't use a Google service for it... The la
by the_duke 7y ago
Site owners can turn off the captcha by reducing the security level.
I understand why it exists, I just wish they didn't use a Google service for it...
The lack of competition probably shows the difficulty of the task. A global CDN is complicated and expensive (physical infrastructure, all the interconnect agreements) and a big technical challenge.
- alexnewman 7y agohcaptcha.com
- Ayesh 7y agoIt is quite possible to setup a global CDN overnight. Spin nginx reverse proxies in all AWS, Digital Ocean, and Linode POSs, and you'd have a good enough network. Throw Inna control panel and you got yourself a contender in the budget CDN sector. Cloudflare was rather innovative, with their authorative and recursive DNS, peering agreements with many ISPs including the ones that others didn't bother about, free SSL (Which they offered with Comodo even before Let's Encrypt), etc.
- manquer 7y agoThat is a fast way to burn a lot of money . Cloud Service Providers like the ones you mention heavily marked up sell metered bandwidth with no guaranteed allocation and are considerably more expensive than say a tier-2 player like hetzner/OVH or spinning your own servers in a Colo.
- ttsda 7y agoSure, but no cloud company offers the amount of locations you can get on Cloudflare. Now you've even got edge compute, bringing really low global latencies for some applications.