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Cloudflare ensures decentralization How by taking out 25% of the internet when they go down?
by ipaddr 4mo ago
Cloudflare ensures decentralization
How by taking out 25% of the internet when they go down?
- ocdtrekkie 4mo agoHave you ever seen a us-east-1 outage? Or when Exchange Online fails... weekly or so? There's a lot of huge clouds that are load-bearing for the Internet. Cloudflare is the one you can at least circumvent easily.
- gonzalohm 4mo agoThat's not true. Read about all the drama happening in Spain when an entity (the soccer league) decides to block all the Cloudfare IPs. You are stuck with no access to most websites behind Cloudfare, and that's a lot of them
- ocdtrekkie 4mo agoHow does this differ if Spain decided to block AWS IPs?
- gonzalohm 4mo agoIt doesn't, it's the same problem. But at least AWS provides more services. Cloudfare is just an extra layer to route traffic
- yencabulator 4mo agoCloudflare does a lot more these days. You can run a JS app in Workers and any Linux app in a container. You can have them host your database and object storage.
- ipaddr 4mo agoGreat and I heard they offer haircuts at a discount. But they still block 25% of internet traffic