2 ms·
I don’t think you can fairly call them a monopoly. It took me like three minutes to come up with seven different competitors offering DDoS protection. And that’
by jakelazaroff 4y ago
I don’t think you can fairly call them a monopoly. It took me like three minutes to come up with seven different competitors offering DDoS protection. And that’s just top-of-mind companies, without even doing research into anyone I might not know offhand.
- https://www.fastly.com/products/ddos-mitigation https://www.fastly.com/products/ddos-mitigation
- https://aws.amazon.com/shield/ https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-...
- https://www.akamai.com/solutions/security/ddos-protection https://www.akamai.com/solutions/security/ddos-protection
- https://cloud.google.com/armor https://cloud.google.com/armor
- https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloud-internet-services https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloud-internet-services
- https://www.rackspace.com/response/rackspace-ddos-mitigation-services https://www.rackspace.com/response/rackspace-ddos-mitigation...
- mikl 4y agoBut how many of these will actually fend of a full-scale DDoS attack on your behalf without sending you a five- or six-digit bill for the trouble afterwards? Haven’t researched all the options, but there must be some reason that DDoS targets all tend to use Cloudflare.
- mhoad 4y agoProbably their continued love of defending the worst parts of the internet that makes them feel at home there. At some point this is just going to become their entire reputation and good luck renewing all of those enterprise accounts and attracting new staff. People and organisations generally don’t want to be associated with this and don’t see it as some great moral cause they want to get behind.
- sigotirandolas 4y agoIBM, Rackspace and various other smaller players are just Cloudflare resellers.