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It's 2024. I still don't know what Cloudflare does
- warrenm 3y agoSimple - they act as the largest man-in-the-middle attack ever staged ... and people pay them to do it
- bediger4000 3y agoHide real IP addresses of controversial web sites and services?
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- greyface- 3y agoSSL added and removed here! :-)
- tekla 3y agohttps://lmgtfy.click/?q=cloudflare+wiki https://lmgtfy.click/?q=cloudflare+wiki So difficult
- testfrequency 3y agoI know all the people I’ve met who have worked there are not fun people to work with!
- 1letterunixname 3y agoOuch. Big egos in tech are a cliche to be dispelled whenever possible by contrary example setting and not taking oneself too seriously. I turned down a ~ £ 2.5 million exit to avoid being golden handcuffed to an absolute dick co-founder for 3 years. Sometimes, your sanity is worth more than any amount of superficial or external stuff. Genuinely cool, reliable peeps with a sense of humor are the best peeps to work with.
- testfrequency 3y agoI don’t disagree. All I can say is that Cloudflare alumni and employees have some of the worst people I’ve come across in the industry. Toxic, rude, egotistical, and weirdly elitist for no reason. I don’t know why or what it is, but that’s just been my experience…so I don’t have the best depiction of the company overall
- stairlane 3y agoPretty good DNS server if you don't want to get DDOSed easily.
- intelVISA 3y agoMITM kings
- marklar423 3y agoWhen they started, I understood them as a CDN - storing copies of your static(ish) bytes on lots of servers distributed globally. Happens to be that a globally distributed network of endpoints is also pretty great for absorbing DDOS attacks, so they started offering that too. And then I guess they parlayed that further into offering other T1/T2 level Internet services too. I don't use them for CDN / DDOS but I do use them for other things and I think they're great.
- morpheos137 3y agoI am curious how do they justify a $200 million loss on almost $2 billion in revenue (2023).
- dude1001 3y ago$NET revenue in 2023 was $1.3 billion -https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NET:NYSE https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NET:NYSE
- 1letterunixname 3y agoTL;DR - Scalable DNS, TLS termination, app firewall, caching, and CDN Also check out fastly which was/is Varnish-based and built by ex Wikia peeps. If you have enough budget, engineering talent, or customers & ARPU, you can build your own AnyCast CDN, DDoS defenses, app caching, and app firewall. Until you have very high bills with SaaS third-party vendors, that's the time to think about migrating to DIY, but otherwise stick with division of labor and specialization of trade for things that aren't your core business.