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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by soperj »

aivisol wrote: post #144
shevy-java wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Please speak for yourself. Not everyone in Europe thinks US is bigger problem than China. For many China is far bigger geopolitical threat since they openly support Russia in its current war.

Trump supports Russia, and their policies (war in Iran, opening up oil purchases again) support it even more.

Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by DarkUranium »

8by3 wrote: post #286
smw wrote: post #215

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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.

indeed, typically by using their huge cash piles to build a moat around them, so no small new player has a dream of competing. This is why I refuse to give any money to AWS/GCP/Azure or anyone who runs on them.

I'm pretty sure that's impossible nowadays, at least avoiding everything that runs on AWS.

Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by huzefashaikh »

boesboes wrote: post #217
8by3 wrote: post #186

When 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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Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by pampas »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #58

It'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…

Registering domains on Cloudflare is great. They do it at cost as far as I can tell and more tlds have been added. I don't have to use a nasty local registrar with dark patterns anymore.

Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by mopsi »

mitxela wrote: post #355
done_lurking wrote: post #258

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Do you really need Cloudflare for something like this?

He doesn't, but someone told him it was good so he uses it. This is Cloudflare's main audience, just like McAfee's.

Unfortunately my proposal to set up a K8s cluster to host 5 HTML pages and a dozen jpegs was not approved, so I had to make some compromises this time.

Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by dgroshev »

petcat wrote: post #187
atakan_gurkan wrote: post #151

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Honestly, I had the impression that the current US regime also supports Russia in its current war. Did they not ask Ukraine to give the already occupied land and then some? As far as I remember, that was in a form almost like an ultimatum, too. China might be a bigger threat, but I find it hard to believe that this would be the reason.

> Did they not ask Ukraine to give the already occupied land and then some? Ukraine is never going to retake the territory they've lost without European soldiers on the ground. Macron famously said that he would have to send troops to Odesa and yet 3 years later there are still no French troops in Ukraine. Meanwhile Putin has captured even more land and is now actively bombarding Kyiv. It is painfully obvious that Eu…

Ukraine is retaking some of the territory right now. https://euobserver.com/236059/ukrainians-again-liberate-terr...

Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by mitxela »

mopsi wrote: post #366
mitxela wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He doesn't, but someone told him it was good so he uses it. This is Cloudflare's main audience, just like McAfee's.

Unfortunately my proposal to set up a K8s cluster to host 5 HTML pages and a dozen jpegs was not approved, so I had to make some compromises this time.

Who told you you need a k8s cluster to serve 5 HTML pages?

Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by mitxela »

seki285 wrote: post #360
mitxela wrote: post #325

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The alternative is nothing. You don't actually need cloudflare.

And get hammered by bots, scrapers, and bad actors?

It's not like cloudflare blocks them either. Have you tried?

Re: Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Post by mitxela »

pampas wrote: post #365
jillesvangurp wrote: post #58

It'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…

Registering domains on Cloudflare is great. They do it at cost as far as I can tell and more tlds have been added. I don't have to use a nasty local registrar with dark patterns anymore.

They do it at cost with a caveat: you can only ever use Cloudflare for that domain. It's a loss leader.
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