I wonder if it would be a good investment for a country to have their own then down the line expand to sell the same service to others
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orclev@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe problem is that the biggest service Cloudflare provides is DDoS protection, and doing that requires that you have more bandwidth available than your attacker. Having enough bandwidth to withstand modern botnet powered DDoS attacks is ridiculously expensive (and it’s also a finite resource, there’s only so much backbone infrastructure). Basically it’s economically infeasible to have multiple companies providing the service Cloudflare does. You might be able to get away with two companies doing so, but it’s unlikely you could manage more than that without some of them starting to go bankrupt.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
when a critical service is not economical for more than one business to do (natural monopoly), that’s when govt should be stepping in.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Which govt? I’m not comfortable with the idea of the current US govt having control over this sort of service.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
are you comfortable with a single corporation having control over this sort of service?
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Honestly? A tiny bit more than a single country. I have at least some miniscule control over the corporation through voting and local regulations that international corporations must follow, whereas I have absolutely no formal influence on US govt.