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Very good post. Cloudflare is continuously adding services to their cloud offerings (the latest being Email delivery) in a familiar pattern of "let's make it impossible to switch".
I don’t see a problem with a company continuing to make useful products. Email delivery was a pretty logical next step for Cloudflare.
Very good post. Cloudflare is continuously adding services to their cloud offerings (the latest being Email delivery) in a familiar pattern of "let's make it impossible to switch".
I don’t see a problem with a company continuing to make useful products. Email delivery was a pretty logical next step for Cloudflare.
It's pretty disappointing that the author (writing in 2025) says "perhaps to maintain its status as the world’s largest botnet operator," and links to a Spamhaus report from Q1 of 2020.[0] If you check the most recent version of the report from Spamhaus (Jan to June 2025)[1], Cloudflare is nowhere to be seen, and Digital Ocean, who they recommend as a Cloudflare alternative is listed as third largest botnet host in t…
Very good post. Cloudflare is continuously adding services to their cloud offerings (the latest being Email delivery) in a familiar pattern of "let's make it impossible to switch".
I'm currently on my Nth run of: - I want to deploy a tiny service for personal use - That has occasional requests (think ~10 a day) - Needs to respond to a few daily events: a CRON job here and there, read an email, webhooks... Think a simpler Zapier In principle this would be perfect for any of the many cloud function providers. But AFAIK all of them have this vendor lock-in built into their business model and I jus…
What we really need is more IPV6 deployment so normal people can have plenty of routable addresses and we can go back to hosting more things on the edges like we used to, on computers we physically control. There are plenty of applications where the bandwidth of PON fiber commonly deployed to homes is more than sufficient, and the extra latency is irrelevant. Sure, it may be susceptible to DDoS attack, but if tens of…
I mean, I understand the opportunity for abuse, but if it displays fine as UTF8 in comments in the previous sentence it might make sense to display it correctly over there in the submission.
xn--gckvb8fzb.com whats this ?
Very good post. Cloudflare is continuously adding services to their cloud offerings (the latest being Email delivery) in a familiar pattern of "let's make it impossible to switch".
I'm currently on my Nth run of: - I want to deploy a tiny service for personal use - That has occasional requests (think ~10 a day) - Needs to respond to a few daily events: a CRON job here and there, read an email, webhooks... Think a simpler Zapier In principle this would be perfect for any of the many cloud function providers. But AFAIK all of them have this vendor lock-in built into their business model and I jus…