Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
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#2Interesting perspective, but it seems like this is just an ad for easyDNS and their "Proactive Nameservers," though I couldn't imagine a better time than the misstep of a behemoth of a competitor in this space. Not to detract from the more important discussion about the internet's dependence on Cloudflare overall.
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#3If more companies are willing to provide the same level of service and price as Cloudflare, then they can get in on the game, too.
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#4If only DDOS attacks were taken seriously and their perpetrators punished accordingly (and maybe if the network had better ways of self-defense) instead of companies and websites having to fend for themselves (or having to resort to solutions like Cloudflare).
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#5Interesting perspective, but it seems like this is just an ad for easyDNS and their "Proactive Nameservers," though I couldn't imagine a better time than the misstep of a behemoth of a competitor in this space. Not to detract from the more important discussion about the internet's dependence on Cloudflare overall.
Hey, never let a competitors misfortune (misstep?) go to waste!
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#6It's interesting to me that Cloudflare doesn't really have any competition with a similar business model. I suppose the free plan requires quite a lot of spending before the upgrades offset it.
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#7Is it realistic for a small-medium sized business to have more than one DNS provider?
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#9Okay here's the thing. I'm okay with people bashing other (competing) companies when they do wrong. However, I believe it is somewhat childish and uncalled for to bash another company, because of a mistake.
First of all "I use easyDNS so I didn't notice it at all tbh" is not only a childish assertion, it's borderline a falsehood. You DO NOT offer the same services, nor the same scale. (No, VOD would not work if your VOD provider used Cloudflare's offering.)
Second of all, as some have noted in other comments, you are very welcome to get just as big as them if you can offer similar (excellent) service and similar extremely competitive pricing. Otherwise, keep working on your offer and stop going for low hanging fruit like bashing the competitor for an outage when they literally might handle 1000x your traffic, and perhaps offer 20x the services your offer.
Just a little rant ...
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#10It's interesting to me that Cloudflare doesn't really have any competition with a similar business model. I suppose the free plan requires quite a lot of spending before the upgrades offset it.
I don't need a free tier. I just need a "basic bitch" tier for my personal usage. Who are some Cloudflare alternatives for this?