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Cloudflare has become somewhat of a necessary evil. At this point, due to the sheer amount of resources and level of effort required to set up an equivalent inf
by jay-barronville 4y ago
Cloudflare has become somewhat of a necessary evil. At this point, due to the sheer amount of resources and level of effort required to set up an equivalent infrastructure, they’re effectively a monopoly. Personally, I hate that and I wish the alternative was feasible, but realistically, if you need Cloudflare-level protection, you’re basically stuck with them.
- senectus1 4y agoare they really an "Evil" though?
- hbogert 4y agomost solutions which are not federated, eventually give the owning company incentives to not play along further nicely, and become some shade of evil. Of course evil is in the eye of the beholder, most probably it's just money dynamics and its implications.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoThis is just becoming a self-sustaining HN meme. Have you actually ever looked at alternatives in serious depth or is this just an echo chamber? Any idea how many companies in the Fortune 500 use, say, Akamai Prolexic instead? Or other vendors?
- sofixa 4y ago> Any idea how many companies in the Fortune 500 use, say, Akamai Prolexic instead? Or other vendors? Not to mention the big public cloud vendors like AWS, GCP and Azure that have their own CDNs too.