I don't have to talk to any sales person thats the reason I use it.
Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
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It's actually a great service though.
It's also a great protection racket. They host many DDoS provider sites and protect them from law enforcement.
Someone's eager to downvote this, but it's been known for a long time and still happens in obvious ways. First page of results for booter services contains https://zeusstress.com/ which is hosted by Cloudflare (yes yes, ceo will send lawyers to say they only proxy not host - doesn't matter in practice)
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>> US domination of "tech" is near total. Not quite when considering China having the tech freedom they wanted. Also switching internet services is far easier than switching physical supply chains. The only thing that might be hard to switch is the part of the interent backbone infra that is controlled by USA.
You are not living in Europe, right? Because while I agree that China is a problem, the USA is a much, much bigger problem for Europeans than China is right now. It's mostly the USA that wants to depict China as the main problem when in reality the USA behaves in a hugely aggressive colonial manner. Trump just makes this more obvious, but that has been the case way before Trump already.
This is all in your head. We just expect people in Europe to begin picking up more of the tab for things like NATO, and don't want our enemies (your enemies if in western/central Europe too, BTW) to get control of future energy/minerals. You call it "aggressive colonial control", Americans call it "time for Europe to accept more financial and personal responsibility.
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> thousands of troops in dozens of military bases on European soil is not, somehow Presence of allies is not colonialism. Threat to annex Greenland is. Threat to annex Canada is. Keeping pet dictator in Venezuela and taking their oil is. On the other hand, when Germans, France and other European soldiers came to Greenland to defend against an American threat, it was not colonialism. It was being allies. > and withdra…
Which way is it: Allies or a threat? How much double-think can you fit within a comment? To me the question is crystal clear: No country should want to have foreign troops permanently stationed on their soil, no matter how good friends they are.
Not to mention, the idea that Germany, 3rd or 4th largest economy on Earth, cannot defend itself on its own and needs American troops "to defend itself" is just ridiculous.
The Americans are there as a front of US empire (IIRC Rammstein is being used for Iran war).
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#215When someone says cloudflare is too good / cheap to be true... maybe think about it. They have shareholders, who wouldn't allow them to provide value for free, its just not obvious to you how they are extracting that value. Maybe its by capturing a huge % of unencrypted https traffic because if you let them do your certs it means they can read all your real traffic.
There are lots of companies that provide low end services for free to attract people who may now or in the future be decision makers at large companies.
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#216How I miss those NET stocks picked up at about 15$ after Covid…what a fail…
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#217When someone says cloudflare is too good / cheap to be true... maybe think about it. They have shareholders, who wouldn't allow them to provide value for free, its just not obvious to you how they are extracting that value. Maybe its by capturing a huge % of unencrypted https traffic because if you let them do your certs it means they can read all your real traffic.
I'm pretty sure it's not really any different from a protection scheme that turns into vendor lock in.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a normal support ticket system not on Discord, which they loudly advertise for having a very good response time. The Discord server is not the primary support method
In my case, the claim was justified. Got a technical response answering my question in detail after half an hour or so.
That's also my experience. I did have a few instances of 'random requests failing' they couldn't really diagnose back when they were new; but that was just amazon dropping request in the end
Service has been great, prices like 10% of cloudflare too once you get the real pricing :P
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#220I have been personally using Cloudflare, and I must say, It is a great choice for small sites, even if you are willing to scale, Cloudflare works great!
It provides you with all the tools necessary to scale your app.