Yes, on one hand, it was so wonderful. Cloudflare came and said, "Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site," and bam, they became a bottleneck for the entire internet. It's some kind of nightmare. Why didn't several other such popular startups appear, into which more money was invested, and which would allow some failure points to be created? I don't understand this. Or at least Cloudflare itself should have had some backup mechanism, so that in case of failures, something still works, even slowly, or at least they could redirect traffic directly, bypassing their proxies. They just didn't do that at all. Something is definitely wrong.

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viraptor an hour ago | parent [-]

> Why didn't several other such popular startups appear

bunny.net

fastly.com

gcore.com

keycdn.com

Cloudfront

Probably some more I forgot now. CF is not the only option and definitely not the best option.

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ianberdin an hour ago | parent [-]

Thank you for sending these alternatives, they look good. And, of course, the most important thing is that Cloudflare is free, while these alternatives cost money. And they cost hundreds of dollars at my traffic volume of tens of terabytes. Of course, I really don't want to pay. So, as they say, mice wept and jabbed, but they kept gnawing on the cactus.

	▲	viraptor an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Nothing's free - one day they will come knocking. Better be prepared to serve at an affordable level.