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I've been using it as well and wow does it cut down on my bandwidth as well.
Here's the ones I've found so far:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lionheart
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lionhearted
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=theli0nheart
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ligerhearted
Any others hiding in the woodworks that wanna show themselves?
I remember signing up for the beta of this service not really understanding how it worked and was pretty weirded out when it asked me to point my DNS to their server. That's not an anti-spam product, that's hosting.
Example: 1. Registrar could be GoDaddy. 2. Hosting is at BlueHost.
Adding CloudFlare would mean: 1. Change authoritative nameservers at GoDaddy to us. 2. Hosting doesn't change at BlueHost.
Perhaps someone can demystify CloudFlare for me? Their value proposition is completely absurd ("protect websites from hacking"), yet they're still around and get quite a bit of seemingly expensive PR-spin like this article. Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover t…
> Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover that. They use VigLink to add affiliate tags to the external links of the sites that use them.
This is actually an optional service (Outbound Links) that can be turned on or off (opt-in by default). No affiliate links are added without turning the feature on.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that you have to look at how CloudFlare is billing itself. It's a simple solution for people who want to have a faster website. It's easier to implement than most other caching or CDN and that $20 plan is likely limited to sites under X amount of traffic. The company is only sitting on around $2 mm in funding (if memory serves me) so it's either making a decent sum of money from people who find value in that…
We're not going to fizzle out any time soon. :-)
Perhaps someone can demystify CloudFlare for me? Their value proposition is completely absurd ("protect websites from hacking"), yet they're still around and get quite a bit of seemingly expensive PR-spin like this article. Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover t…
> Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover that. They use VigLink to add affiliate tags to the external links of the sites that use them.
Some mangled affiliate links cover the cost for 10th largest traffic site nowadays?
If anyone is interested in the very limited data, it is at http://isitupordown.appspot.com/v/urbad with "ActualServer" being the VPS itself, and CDNCache being CloudFlare.
For example, I just picked this mouseover that interested me:
The threat challenge page stops known threats and alerts infected humans that they need to take action.
Is there anything that elaborates on that? From a security perspective, I'm drawing a blank as to what a reverse proxy filter is achieving there. You're rewriting html destined for ddos zombies?
I doubt I'm your target market, so feel free to ignore me, but do you have a page that explains what you're really offering minus all the marketing hand waving? It sounds like it might be interesting but it's difficult to wade through the 10,000 ft view stuff. For example, I just picked this mouseover that interested me: The threat challenge page stops known threats and alerts infected humans that they need to take a…
Perhaps someone can demystify CloudFlare for me? Their value proposition is completely absurd ("protect websites from hacking"), yet they're still around and get quite a bit of seemingly expensive PR-spin like this article. Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover t…
We're not going anywhere:)
Has been used by Lulzsec effectively to hold up against DDoS attacks and popularized by them on Twitter as well. It works.
Not sure how this stands against a DDoS.