This read is a good start:
Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 day agoWould you be willing to share more about your position? I’ve been happy with their service, but want to be fully informed about who I’m doing business with
Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
deltapi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Looks like a totally legit domain. Much trusting.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
It is - that’s just how URLs in non-latin fonts look unfortunately. It, (and a ton of tech infrastructure) is hugely English/latin script biased.
The URL is Japanese.
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 10 hours ago
I can’t remember the exact technical details of it, but that’s how links are generated for non-Latin languages. If you go to the actual site it will display as the intended url
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It’s punycode. Get with the times.
Sunny@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Normally when i post these links i add a notice, as it seems not too many people know yet, but as suggest by another comment: this is puny code.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
just access it through cloudfarse… you’ll be fine!
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Could start with the fact that they go down about once a month now and take half the Internet with them.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
They’re having a major outage as I’m reading this, lol.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah OK, so when you said “terrible company” you meant performance? I’ve had great performance with them so far fortunately
helix@feddit.org 22 hours ago
For me it’s reliability and generally scummy business practices.
They protect scammers and sell big data centres solutions that protect from DoS attacks 🤡
Technus@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
I wasn’t the original person that replied.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s less a problem with cloud flare it self and more just a issue of anything the scope and scale of what they have become. Even a better company would face the same issues.
It’s fair to argue that they we should spread things out more to make them more resilient.
But that’s more a knock against centralization than the service at hand. It’s also fair to show that they’re good enough that they were able to reach this point. Or more accurately. Everyone else was worse so they reached this point.
It always feels like blaming cloudford at this point is much like blaming the horse for its Rider.
helix@feddit.org 22 hours ago
They’re protecting scammers and other bad actors, their infra is run by junior DevOps “engineers” and every now and then they find another way to fuck half the internet.
They’re part of what’s wrong with USA-centric hosting nowadays.
Others posted good articles and thoughts aswell :)
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Is there a European equivalent? At the moment I only do ddns with them and they are my registrar but don’t use the tunnela
helix@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Countless DDNS vendors. You could set up a simple 1€/month ionos.com server and do DDNS yourself or rent DDNS from inwx.de or do.de or something.