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You don’t pay Cloudflare money nor are you customer. The customers are the sites that pay them money to protect their infrastructure. The customers have man
by adrr 3y ago
You don’t pay Cloudflare money nor are you customer. The customers are the sites that pay them money to protect their infrastructure. The customers have many choices in CDN/WAF providers and Cloudflare isn’t even largest, Akamai is. Fastest growing CDN is cloudfront. There is healthy competition so why would anti trust laws apply?
- zer8k 3y agoCloudflare controls about 19% of websites. Of the websites that use a CDN, 80% of them use Cloudflare [0] (in a note at the bottom of link). [0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/statistically-speaking-whats-the-percentage-of-total-sites-that-use-cf/372054 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/statistically-speaking-wh...
- adrr 3y agoTraffic by bandwidth/number of users. Akamai powers Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, US government, Walmart, bunch of the major streamers.
- doctor_radium 3y agoMaybe some kind of public nuisance law applies then? Akamai knows their place and doesn't tell me to go pound sand when I'm trying to read somebody's obituary. Incidentally: legacy.com Ray ID: 7f3e7bad3afbb731 That's the difference to me.