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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
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#232Since it appears to have gotten hugged to death - https://web.archive.org/web/20260908084626/https://ciphercue... Not really unexpected, US domination of "tech" is near total, even if the sustained political will exists (and I'm not sure it will for long enough) unwinding that is the expensive work of years/decades not months. Doing it in a way that won't invite retaliation from the US Gov (which seems more and more…
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#233Pretty sure that Cloudflare has absolutely no moat in Europe, and could be replaced by any adequately funded European version. Never believe that European talk about separating from the US is anything but slop for the plebs.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I theoretically agree, the issue is that Trump will connect economical issues to blowing up NATO Article 5, leaving NATO completely, or retracting intelligence or Starlink for Ukraine. So for the most part, the EU has to work slowly and under the radar. That said, my worry is that we'll be back to business as usual if the midterms look favorable. Even the urgency present during January's Greenland threats was g…
> So for the most part, the EU has to work slowly and under the radar. How convenient. If it wasn't for the US, the EU would work really fast and in the open! That is totally believable.
That's not what I said. Both can be true at the same time: the EU works slow; political repercussions requires the EU to work slow (regardless whether they are slow or not).
Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
#235the actual asymmetry isn't nsa, it's that cloudflare terminates tls for ~20% of the web in one place — one config push and everyone's plaintext moves.
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#236Surprised to see no mention of Cloudbleed yet, something like that is when this centralization hurts the most.
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#237> The front door is not the whole stack Hey Claude, can you move the ciphercue blog to Cloudflare so it can deal with traffic from HN? On a more serious note, Cloudflare comes packed with features even on its free plan which makes it useful for any size website. For a real business it's one of the cheapest options for DDoS protection on the market. Some years ago you would have paid a fortune for Akamai or Level3 to…
> now you can get by on a $200 a month plan for a small business You're delusional if you think that $200/month is appropriate for a small business to pay to host a website ... Most websites don't need a CDN nor DDOS protection, you need to configure your webserver to rate limit stuff that suck bandwidth/CPU from you, but besides that, you've basically fallen for the marketing from Cloudflare that everything requires…
The internet is a dangerous place and some people will be dicks even if you aren't making any money. Most hosts will show you the door the someone puts their crosshairs on you. Some small businesses like gaming are disproportionately effected.
Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
#238If we're speaking strictly on Cost and your ROI, Cloudflare is pretty much unmatched.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This would be more convincing without the weird bullshit around Greenland and Canada.
Also, JD Vance and the AfD...
Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
#240It's seriously good value for small websites. Basically, there is no cost aside from the domain. And for registering and managing domains, they are pretty much the most affordable option as well. And they have a few other things that aren't half bad to use with pretty generous freemium layers. We used Google's CDN for the last six years or so but it's pretty annoying to deal with and you have to pay for a load balanc…
The hidden cost, of course, is that the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers. Cloudflare is the LG TV of websites, but it's worse because we've known it has an always-on microphone and speech-to-text for over a decade and we still keep using it for some reason.
The NSA couldn't care less about you and your customers, nor do they have any interest whatsoever in the megaton of worthless internet traffic that goes through Cloudflare.
This article, from over a decade ago now, explains how they actually operate. Gobbling up all the traffic is a 20+ year old idea that never bore any fruit and is amazingly pointless. Instead, they might drop an implant in the SSD firmware of devices they actually care about, and they're not burning that to see if you sold X widgets to someone in Alberta.
https://blog.thinkst.com/2015/08/if-the-nsa-has-been-hacking...