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The solution is the Decentralized Web (DWeb), such as IPFS ( https://ipfs.io ), Freenet ( https://freenetproject.org ), GNUnet ( https://gnunet.org ) or Hypercore ( https://hypercore-protocol.org ). We should start using them to avoid centralization and embrace freedom.
If you keep much of a website simple - plain html and css - won't that reduce the need for a CDN in the first place?
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Provided by the government.
So no problem with Nazis using USPS but FedEx is to be condemned for not opening all your packages and refusing the ones with proscribed literature?
Funny you bring up Fedex: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/business/fedex-washington-red...
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Read our S-1, it's all in there. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...
Congratulations with growing so big. Why aren't there dozens of lookalikes by now? I mean CDNs that will let you override the origin's cache instructions and do a decent job of DDOS protection, and whose feature list otherwise looks a little like Cloudflare's.
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Firing people for making mistakes is a great way to watch productivity dive. The easiest way to prevent mistakes is to do nothing at all.
I understand the point being made here, but what are those affected supposed to take away? Cloudflare made a mistake that caused (x millions of dollars of lost online commerce revenues, y number of missed telehealth sessions, etc.) and since we do not punish mistakes, nothing was done. Sorry everyone!
It's a learning process for all involved, really.
From the affected parties point of view, well, they should diversify their network a bit better. End users should hold those companies feet to the fire, not Cloudflare's.
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They do blame you though, most people won't be aware of the real issue, when cloudflare went down, the trending things on twitter were #spotifydown and #applemusic
I suspect customers complaining on Twitter are not the ones cared about to whoever decides to use Cloudflare.
The solution is the Decentralized Web (DWeb), such as IPFS ( https://ipfs.io ), Freenet ( https://freenetproject.org ), GNUnet ( https://gnunet.org ) or Hypercore ( https://hypercore-protocol.org ). We should start using them to avoid centralization and embrace freedom.
How do I publish a website on one of these?
Well, I usually block it anyway, because it is not only a single point of failure, but also a single point of concentration of data, that can be used to track, spy on and profile users. As such, I do not blindly trust Cloudflare. I remain sceptical, no matter how positive their public image is. Especially I would not set my DNS to cloudflare.
Who do you use for DNS then that you do trust?
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II love cloudflare. It has really helped out with several sites/projects that I have worked on and the service is top notch. I am also an investor. I tend to invest in stuff which I use a lot or trust/respect the employees. Weirdly what made me really invest is the level of geekiness on the company. I remember seeing you guys using a lava lamp wall to generate entropy and just thought "that's awesome". I just wanted…
It's a bit of a sad story, but maybe you'll like this read about one of the guys who laid the foundation for their tech and his sad decline: https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline... I really liked the stories of his skill when he was in his prime. Very inspiring.
I'm not sure what to take from this. But thank you for sharing it
I am not sure, if I would trust anyone who misuses the term "Single-Point-of-Failure" on matters of reliability.