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And even if they don't, is everything depending on Cloudflare to stay online a good thing?
by nottorp 2y ago
And even if they don't, is everything depending on Cloudflare to stay online a good thing?
- sshine 2y agoIt’s a terrible thing. Cloudflare is the company I hate the most: I think (what I know of) their tech is done right, and they’re just too big to put my eggs in their basket.
- koakuma-chan 2y agoWhy is nobody building a better product?
- nisegami 2y agoBecause Cloudflare's products are very good. The issues people have with Cloudflare are more philosophical and won't be resolved by building a better product. GP's concerns would best be rectified by dozens of commodity-like competitors of similar quality.
- nottorp 2y agoExactly. Not even social networking is bad per se. It’s concentration of power that’s bad. Considering recent events especially, is all the worlds traffic passing through a cdn subject to a certain jurisdiction a good thing?
- Dwedit 2y agoYou mean why is nobody making arrangements to put their own server into thousands and thousands of ISP datacenters?
- scryers_bloom 2y agoBy snuffing out competition through economies of scale is one explanation.
- renewiltord 2y agoBecause their product is awesome dude. I don’t even know where to improve it. Love it as a user.
- seec 2y agoBecause their "product" isn't one born of actual needs and has to do with inherent weakness to the way internet and some protocol works. Using Cloudflare is not a permanent fix, just a bandage, and it's particularly bad that they'll use their quasi monopoly into strongarming business to pay large fees. It's basically racketeering, legal. If we are talking about the CDN and associated "software", last time I checked (a long time ago admittedly) it was nothing special.