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And yet Cloudflare is just one of many massive internet companies. Are you going to say the same about Akamai? What about all the ISPs and exchanges in the midd
by manigandham 5y ago
And yet Cloudflare is just one of many massive internet companies. Are you going to say the same about Akamai? What about all the ISPs and exchanges in the middle? What about all the clouds and datacenters?
The reality is we live in an interconnected world where everyone uses hundreds of vendors to live and work. There's a certain amount of trust involved, backed by business relationships and the law. It's not perfect but it works just fine.
If you really think Cloudflare is excessively risky then of course you don't have to use it, but it's a strange conclusion to arrive at after looking at their actions all this time.
- mike_d 5y agoCloudFlare positions itself as an all or nothing frontend to your site, not just a CDN you offload assets to. Even sites that fully front themselves with a CDN you can still poke around and find the origin servers. For example you can drop requests to fbcdn.net (which last time I bothered to check was a good mix of Akamai) and still make a connection to Facebook itself and at least logged in and view HTML. Obviously ISPs, internet exchanges, datacenters, and clouds operate very differently. But I imagine you know the difference.
- manigandham 5y agoWhat are you trying to say? You can use Cloudflare in a variety of ways, just like any other CDN. My point is that there are lots of vendors with lots of control involved in pretty much every business transaction. There's nothing special about Cloudflare in this regard, in the same way you trust your bank or ISP or power utility or office custodial staff. Risk management is a mature process; no wild conspiracies required.
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