Why Qualcomm? They make mobile chips. Are we going to see SoCs specially optimized for communicating with CloudFlare servers? That sounds like a potentially bad idea.
Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare
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#12Welcome to the Cloudflare-net. Half the internet is behind CloudFlare now. Since they can't easily "own" the Internet, they could as well own CloudFlare. Not impressed and I hate all this hiding behind Cloudflare and other proxy services; most of the cases are just hipster/hype powered, rather than in actual need.
I use CloudFlare because I like their DNS service; I've switched off proxy/caching entirely :|
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#13Does anyone have a link to a viable contender? I have used cloudflare in the past and it was great but now I need a new service.
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#14Welcome to the Cloudflare-net. Half the internet is behind CloudFlare now. Since they can't easily "own" the Internet, they could as well own CloudFlare. Not impressed and I hate all this hiding behind Cloudflare and other proxy services; most of the cases are just hipster/hype powered, rather than in actual need.
Time to create a competitor, right?
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#15Does anyone have a link to a viable contender? I have used cloudflare in the past and it was great but now I need a new service.
us. Apakau.com. contact me.
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#16Welcome to the Cloudflare-net. Half the internet is behind CloudFlare now. Since they can't easily "own" the Internet, they could as well own CloudFlare. Not impressed and I hate all this hiding behind Cloudflare and other proxy services; most of the cases are just hipster/hype powered, rather than in actual need.
Time to create a competitor, right?
done and done. But better and more enterprise. Most kind of see CloudFlare is low end for wordpress types.
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#17Welcome to the Cloudflare-net. Half the internet is behind CloudFlare now. Since they can't easily "own" the Internet, they could as well own CloudFlare. Not impressed and I hate all this hiding behind Cloudflare and other proxy services; most of the cases are just hipster/hype powered, rather than in actual need.
I use CloudFlare because I like their DNS service; I've switched off proxy/caching entirely :|
Same here. I've had a great experience with their DNS service. Zero cost, and just as good as Amazon's Route 53 in my testing.
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#18How does CloudFlare compare to Akamai? Are they direct competitors?
Sort of. CloudFlare is eating into the bottom third of Akamai's business. A skeptic on that might say that Akamai's is an enterprise, high-end solution, and that CloudFlare is for everything else - and so they don't really compete. My contention is that CloudFlare will climb upwards, taking ever great amounts of their business (as so often happens in tech).
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#19Silly question: How does CloudFlare make any money?
Any random can put any site behind their (very fully featured) free services and get free CDN, free antimalware, and free $other_services, with no seeming limits as to the amount of traffic you get. This has no impact on the target site. There are no ads or any other such. Their enterprise products only offer a few more features at a massive cost hike.
How are the bandwidth costs not eating them alive, and how are the free users being subsidized?
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#20I can't get to the original link, something forbes is messing with, however this works: http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.forbes.com/sites...
That's because the Forbes interstitial is one giant ad that your newly found blocker is blocking.