It's hard not to use Cloudflare at least for me: good products, "free" for small projects, and if Cloudflare is down no one will blame you since the internet is down.

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graemep 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> if Cloudflare is down no one will blame you since the internet is down.

That is true. it is also the problem. It means the biggest providers do not even need to bother to be reliable because everyone will use them anyway.

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reassess_blind 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, no. If they are unreliable to the point of being an outlier when compared to the alternatives then people will switch. At this stage they’re not an outlier.

	▲	antonyh 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe not, but they are approaching it. I wouldn't use it for anything funded with my own cash, I no longer recommend it as a first choice, but I'm not suggesting it gets replaced yet. It's somewhat in the 'legacy tech' category now in terms of how I perceive it and deal with it.
	▲	graemep 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They are often promoted as bing more reliable.

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Dilettante_ 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Accountability Sinks"

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/accountability-sinks

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timeon 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> if Cloudflare is down no one will blame you since the internet is down.

But this is not really the case. When Azure/AWS were down, same as this one with Cloudflare: significant amount of web was down but most of it was not. It just makes more obvious which provider you use.