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I have 10B idea: cloudflare that does not fail so often.


How about: internet that is actually decentralized.


Yes, on one hand, it was so wonderful. Cloudflare came and said, "Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site," and bam, they became a bottleneck for the entire internet. It's some kind of nightmare. Why didn't several other such popular startups appear, into which more money was invested, and which would allow some failure points to be created? I don't understand this. Or at least Cloudflare itself should have had some backup mechanism, so that in case of failures, something still works, even slowly, or at least they could redirect traffic directly, bypassing their proxies. They just didn't do that at all. Something is definitely wrong.


> Why didn't several other such popular startups appear

bunny.net

fastly.com

gcore.com

keycdn.com

Cloudfront

Probably some more I forgot now. CF is not the only option and definitely not the best option.

> Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site,

... and host the providers selling DDoS services. https://privacy-pc.com/articles/spy-jacking-the-booters.html


Thank you for sending these alternatives, they look good. And, of course, the most important thing is that Cloudflare is free, while these alternatives cost money. And they cost hundreds of dollars at my traffic volume of tens of terabytes. Of course, I really don't want to pay. So, as they say, mice wept and jabbed, but they kept gnawing on the cactus.


Nothing's free - one day they will come knocking. Better be prepared to serve at an affordable level.


Nobody got fired for choosing clownflare


It exists and it's called Bunny.net


Looking at their market cap it’s 71.5B idea




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