Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

blog.cloudflare.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 266 posts

Re: Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

#2

Post by _eht »

I typically find myself off set with every new Cloudflare offering, followed by wondering if they are reaching for a niche outside of DDOS protection.

I'm not in a position to explore a need for Cloudflare outside of hiding my origin IP addresses, but for those of you who are, are you actually using and benefiting from the wide array of offerings from Cloudflare? As it stands now, I see these announcements and make a mental note to expect a slough of marketing emails in my inbox for the next couple weeks.

Re: Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

#3

Post by manigandham »

_eht wrote: post #2

I typically find myself off set with every new Cloudflare offering, followed by wondering if they are reaching for a niche outside of DDOS protection. I'm not in a position to explore a need for Cloudflare outside of hiding my origin IP addresses, but for those of you who are, are you actually using and benefiting from the wide array of offerings from Cloudflare? As it stands now, I see these announcements and make a…

Yes, they have plenty of customers benefiting and are one of the few companies that are constantly innovating with new features, especially with content delivery performance and security. As much as I dislike network consolidation into a handful of companies, there are not many real competitors for the features and value of Cloudflare.

Re: Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

#5

Post by eugeneionesco »

_eht wrote: post #2

I typically find myself off set with every new Cloudflare offering, followed by wondering if they are reaching for a niche outside of DDOS protection. I'm not in a position to explore a need for Cloudflare outside of hiding my origin IP addresses, but for those of you who are, are you actually using and benefiting from the wide array of offerings from Cloudflare? As it stands now, I see these announcements and make a…

I basically use Cloudflare for dns management, they make it so easy....

Re: Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

#6

Post by occultist_throw »

Again.. More services that us Tor users are exempt from, lest we go into captcha hell.

Edit: Seriously, -1's and an accusation of supporting pedophilia? I've certainly hit on a raw topic. And frankly, I'm not wrong regarding Captcha hell. We've had dozens of articles and threads about that very topic.

Re: Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

#8

Post by snaky »

manigandham wrote: post #3
_eht wrote: post #2

I typically find myself off set with every new Cloudflare offering, followed by wondering if they are reaching for a niche outside of DDOS protection. I'm not in a position to explore a need for Cloudflare outside of hiding my origin IP addresses, but for those of you who are, are you actually using and benefiting from the wide array of offerings from Cloudflare? As it stands now, I see these announcements and make a…

Yes, they have plenty of customers benefiting and are one of the few companies that are constantly innovating with new features, especially with content delivery performance and security. As much as I dislike network consolidation into a handful of companies, there are not many real competitors for the features and value of Cloudflare.

Speaking about consolidation, sometimes it looks like AOLv2 (or MSNv2) is coming, with Cloudflare on transport layer, Google on WWW layer on top of it, and Facebook on social layer on top of it.
Post reply on HN