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It's true that the existence of DDoS-Guard, VanwaTech, and a few others technically makes it an oligopoly, but you're still at the mercy of large corporations.
by heartbeats 4y ago
It's true that the existence of DDoS-Guard, VanwaTech, and a few others technically makes it an oligopoly, but you're still at the mercy of large corporations.
I do not work for CloudFlare.
- prvit 4y agoDDoS-Guard and VanwaTech are both tiny companies and represent less than 1% of the market. There are hundreds of providers that offer decent DDoS protection. DDoS-Guard and VanwaTech are just specialist providers that offer hosting to websites that very few companies would willing to work with. It's not an oligopoly either.
- heartbeats 4y agoWhat exactly are you trying to convey here? Who else is big within the DDoS protection market? It's not like you could start up your own.
- prvit 4y ago>What exactly are you trying to convey here? Cloudflare being a monopoly, or DDoS protection market being an oligopoly is absolute bullshit. >It's not like you could start up your own. You can. Vanwatech you just mentioned was run by a little kid who was bundling testcookie-as-a-service with filtering services from a bunch of other small providers like BuyVM. You can get something like this started for much less than $1k/mo. >Who else is big within the DDoS protection market? Just off the top of my head: OVH, Voxility, Level3, Akamai, Neustar, Path.net, Stackpath, Hyperfilter, Javapipe, Sharktech, Blazingfast...