So does Cloudflare now get around the slowness of passing through the Great Firewall? (Currently, I don't use CF and our website is slow from inside China.)
Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare
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#22Silly question: How does CloudFlare make any money? Any random can put any site behind their (very fully featured) free services and get free CDN, free antimalware, and free $other_services, with no seeming limits as to the amount of traffic you get. This has no impact on the target site. There are no ads or any other such. Their enterprise products only offer a few more features at a massive cost hike. How are the b…
My guess is that if you need a CDN, it's highly likely that you will at least need their Pro plan, most likely a business plan. Other than geeks, I don't really see too many people consuming their free offering to a limit where it becomes a financial burden for them.
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#23Does anyone have a link to a viable contender? I have used cloudflare in the past and it was great but now I need a new service.
We use Amazon Cloudfront, but it's more like a traditional CDN so not exactly the same.
I've also heard good things about https://www.fastly.com/
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#24Yeah, at this point, we honestly and genuinely need large CloudFlare competitors. So hopefully one of their competitors is able to get more competitive.
Is Google's Cloud DNS product a competitor? https://cloud.google.com/dns/
Doesn't seem like it has the "firewall" capabilities of CF.
Also found this: http://alternativeto.net/software/cloudflare/
Because of the size of the WordPress market, Sucuri.net might be a legit competitor.
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#25Silly question: How does CloudFlare make any money? Any random can put any site behind their (very fully featured) free services and get free CDN, free antimalware, and free $other_services, with no seeming limits as to the amount of traffic you get. This has no impact on the target site. There are no ads or any other such. Their enterprise products only offer a few more features at a massive cost hike. How are the b…
I pay them $20 a month. I needed HTTPS back in the days before that was part of their free plan and kept on with the paid plan.
I'm not sure what features the free plan lacks, but $20 a month isn't going to break the bank. I found their application firewall very useful for stopping spam registrations.
Re: Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare
#26Silly question: How does CloudFlare make any money? Any random can put any site behind their (very fully featured) free services and get free CDN, free antimalware, and free $other_services, with no seeming limits as to the amount of traffic you get. This has no impact on the target site. There are no ads or any other such. Their enterprise products only offer a few more features at a massive cost hike. How are the b…
You would be right if most of the small sites would need it, but the sites that use CDN usually have lots of traffic or at least bigger than average small blogging site.
for them, the paid option is a better one.
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#27So does Cloudflare now get around the slowness of passing through the Great Firewall? (Currently, I don't use CF and our website is slow from inside China.)
Yes, they wrote a blog post about it here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-extended-cloudflares-perf...
Re: Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare
#28Silly question: How does CloudFlare make any money? Any random can put any site behind their (very fully featured) free services and get free CDN, free antimalware, and free $other_services, with no seeming limits as to the amount of traffic you get. This has no impact on the target site. There are no ads or any other such. Their enterprise products only offer a few more features at a massive cost hike. How are the b…
I pay them $20 a month. I needed HTTPS back in the days before that was part of their free plan and kept on with the paid plan. I'm not sure what features the free plan lacks, but $20 a month isn't going to break the bank. I found their application firewall very useful for stopping spam registrations.
I'm using the free option on a bunch of sites. I would pay $20 but, with their current pricing structure, I can't foresee a reason for me to do so?
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#29I am a long-standing CF partner and supporter. This really does not fill me with happy, warm thoughts. I love the CF tech and offering, but am going to be forced to look around for alternatives.
Why?
Because giant tech companies only have malicious intent and now CF will be spying on everyones lives, duh.
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#30Welcome to the Cloudflare-net. Half the internet is behind CloudFlare now. Since they can't easily "own" the Internet, they could as well own CloudFlare. Not impressed and I hate all this hiding behind Cloudflare and other proxy services; most of the cases are just hipster/hype powered, rather than in actual need.
I noticed this when they started requiring ridiculously complicated CAPTCHAs for tor users (which they luckily toned down, I believe after the tor project guys got in touch with them). It basically broke the internet for tor users, because so many sites are behind CloudFlare.
It's sad that a single party has such power over such a large part of the internet. But of course, DDoS protection services inherently require large scale, so it's a tricky problem.