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That's not how security works either. A single event does not mean something is insecure. As said before, mistakes and security holes happen every day. The totality of the situation is that Cloudflare is still more secure than you because they are better resourced with more people, time, money, connections, hardware and processes. Same with load balancing, which is not a buzzword, and something Google does better than you ever will.

I look for people who understand business trade-offs, how to effectively spend time and money, have a proper understanding of risk, and know when a specialized vendor is a better for non-mainline business functions.

What exactly are you going to do when you find a hole in the load balancing software you use? Or do you write that software yourself too? What about the OS? What about the hardware? What about the datacenter? What about the transit fiber? Do you just build your own internet then? No matter what you do, you're trusting other vendors at some point.

The only possibility is to look at the entire situation and assess the risks and costs - which from this conversation seems to be your biggest problem.



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