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I want to love CloudFlare, I really do. We currently use them, but sadly the number of times that CloudFlare has been the cause of a service interruption is somewhere around 50% mark. They are no longer in use on any critical/important end points, I just don't need PagerDuty waking us up over an issue I have no control over. This is not a problem I expect to improve. As they start to cover all of the web, i imagine t…
It'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.
It'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.
it’s routed through a high-performance interconnect instead of the public Internet The public internet does seem to be shrinking, more and more closed data silos and now huge chunks of traffic going through a 'trusted' man-in-the-middle. From an individual sites standpoint it's amazing (and I use it for most of my sites), but the bigger they become the more juicy a target they are.
I strongly advise against hosting images, particularly photos, behind CloudFlare. I don't use it myself but I'm frequently noticing CloudFlare aggressively stripping color-profiles from images. Most noticeable if the photo has an AdobeRGB profile, as many do. It makes skin tones in particular look very dull. I don't know if CloudFlare honors no-transform – I suspect they do, but most sites don't send it.
Has that changed?
I want to love CloudFlare, I really do. We currently use them, but sadly the number of times that CloudFlare has been the cause of a service interruption is somewhere around 50% mark. They are no longer in use on any critical/important end points, I just don't need PagerDuty waking us up over an issue I have no control over. This is not a problem I expect to improve. As they start to cover all of the web, i imagine t…
CloudFlare's complicity with ISIS, however, was what turned me off permanently. For those unaware, CloudFlare was providing proxy shielding of ISIS's propaganda websites. The CF CEO publicly refused to discontinue their service, taking an anti-censorship, pro-free-speech stance. His absolutist views didn't sit well with me and I consider their servicing of these domains to be aiding and abetting this criminal organization.
I want to love CloudFlare, I really do. We currently use them, but sadly the number of times that CloudFlare has been the cause of a service interruption is somewhere around 50% mark. They are no longer in use on any critical/important end points, I just don't need PagerDuty waking us up over an issue I have no control over. This is not a problem I expect to improve. As they start to cover all of the web, i imagine t…
I tried their enterprise tier out about 9 months ago and was entirely unimpressed. Moving a site from Akamai -> CF increased page load times dramatically. We ended up quickly switching back. CloudFlare's complicity with ISIS, however, was what turned me off permanently. For those unaware, CloudFlare was providing proxy shielding of ISIS's propaganda websites. The CF CEO publicly refused to discontinue their service,…
I want to love CloudFlare, I really do. We currently use them, but sadly the number of times that CloudFlare has been the cause of a service interruption is somewhere around 50% mark. They are no longer in use on any critical/important end points, I just don't need PagerDuty waking us up over an issue I have no control over. This is not a problem I expect to improve. As they start to cover all of the web, i imagine t…
What problem does CloudFlare really solve except for DDOS?
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I tried their enterprise tier out about 9 months ago and was entirely unimpressed. Moving a site from Akamai -> CF increased page load times dramatically. We ended up quickly switching back. CloudFlare's complicity with ISIS, however, was what turned me off permanently. For those unaware, CloudFlare was providing proxy shielding of ISIS's propaganda websites. The CF CEO publicly refused to discontinue their service,…
I'm curious if you think ISPs should block ISIS websites, domains, and IP addresses.
I want to love CloudFlare, I really do. We currently use them, but sadly the number of times that CloudFlare has been the cause of a service interruption is somewhere around 50% mark. They are no longer in use on any critical/important end points, I just don't need PagerDuty waking us up over an issue I have no control over. This is not a problem I expect to improve. As they start to cover all of the web, i imagine t…
> no longer in use on any critical/important end points What's your recommendation as an alternative. Cloudflare is tempting if you are tight on resources due to free SSl, CDN, etc. and it is super easy to setup. I'd love to try out alternatives though, just as a backup.