CloudFlare and Google Cloud Platform
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CloudFlare and Google Cloud Platform
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#2It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.
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#3It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.
The more popular it becomes, the more incentive there is for other companies to enter the space and grab a chunk of the money. The barriers to entry are not insurmountable for e.g. existing CDN companies to start offering DNS, WAF and DDOS mitigation products, making them more like Cloudflare. They already have the peering/hosting relationships and engineering teams experienced at working with large volumes of traffic. I wouldn't be too worried about Cloudflare taking over the internet this early on.
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#4It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.
That's a lot of hyperbole there. If you look at the top 500 websites very few of them are behind CloudFlare, CloudFlare's penetration seems to be SMBs mostly (since larger orgs can afford the in-house mitigations that CloudFlare offers).
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#5It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.
pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy on the whole
I'm interested. Please expand on the privacy point. I thought the general move to CloudFlare was a good thing for privacy, as it provides an easy mechanism for getting sites onto HTTPS without having every site to worry about managing certificates.
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#6Does this apply to App Engine too? Is there a way to test if you're getting the direct route?
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#7It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.
The more popular it becomes, the more incentive there is for other companies to enter the space and grab a chunk of the money. The barriers to entry are not insurmountable for e.g. existing CDN companies to start offering DNS, WAF and DDOS mitigation products, making them more like Cloudflare. They already have the peering/hosting relationships and engineering teams experienced at working with large volumes of traffi…
To continue with your point, we use https://sucuri.net/ where I work because it has such a great set of tools and extension for our Wordpress blog, which kept getting hacked.
Lots of space in this area.
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#8It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.
The more popular it becomes, the more incentive there is for other companies to enter the space and grab a chunk of the money. The barriers to entry are not insurmountable for e.g. existing CDN companies to start offering DNS, WAF and DDOS mitigation products, making them more like Cloudflare. They already have the peering/hosting relationships and engineering teams experienced at working with large volumes of traffi…
Is there reason for people to enter a market with a single obvious leader though? I got the impression that making peering agreements with people on any sort of scale was a bit of a bear. It is already quite ubiquitous, a surprising number of websites use it even if it's not completely obvious, reddit.com has some sort of stealth configuration that bypasses the normal DNS setup for example.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The more popular it becomes, the more incentive there is for other companies to enter the space and grab a chunk of the money. The barriers to entry are not insurmountable for e.g. existing CDN companies to start offering DNS, WAF and DDOS mitigation products, making them more like Cloudflare. They already have the peering/hosting relationships and engineering teams experienced at working with large volumes of traffi…
To continue with your point, we use https://sucuri.net/ where I work because it has such a great set of tools and extension for our Wordpress blog, which kept getting hacked. Lots of space in this area.
Good example: "Sucuri is Building a Comprehensive Alternative to CloudFlare"
http://wptavern.com/sucuri-is-building-a-comprehensive-alter...
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#10It's becoming unusual not to see sites behind CloudFlare now, pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy and security on the whole. If things continue in this direction we'll have the cloudflare, and some scraps of regular internet off the side.
pretty neat from a routing standpoint and devastating to user privacy on the whole I'm interested. Please expand on the privacy point. I thought the general move to CloudFlare was a good thing for privacy, as it provides an easy mechanism for getting sites onto HTTPS without having every site to worry about managing certificates.
If CloudFlare is compromised by an intelligence agency or forced by law enforcement and courts to cooperate, they're a large single-point-of-failure for privacy.