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In the beginning of a project I want velocity and progress. CF gives me: Easy SSL. Register domain at cost. Throw up static site on S3 equivalent (or app on wh
by richardw 3y ago
In the beginning of a project I want velocity and progress. CF gives me:
Easy SSL. Register domain at cost. Throw up static site on S3 equivalent (or app on whichever cloud), add Cloudflare and a couple redirects (no www to www, no ssl to ssl), done. It’s like gmail for simple web hosting. It’s also like early Google, friendly and useful and not trying to squeeze every dollar for shareholders and bonuses.
They lend us their very competent team at free or minimal cost. I totally get the single point of failure and monopoly but compared to AWS, Azure and Google complexity it’s a simple web app dream until I have time to care about certs etc.
Competitors need to build an easy alternative and get as good as the CF team. Which is way better than me at futzing with config I only touch once every couple years.