Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem

dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hate it but there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative. Which is why they’re dominant, they’re the only game in town

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  • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How come?

    You can route traffic without Cloudflare.

    You can use CDNs other than Cloudflare’s.

    You can use tunneling from other providers.

    There are providers of DDOS protection and CAPTCHA other than Cloudflare.

    Sure, Cloudflare is probably closest to asingle, integrated solution for the full web delivery stack. It’s also not prohibitively expensive, depending on who needs what.

    So the true explanation, as always, is lazyness.

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    • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m lazy and use cloudflare, so that checks out. Due to recent events I’ll switch to another CDN, the centralization of the internet is very concerning.

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m a fan of BunnyCDN - somehow they’re one of the fastest while also being one of the cheapest, and they’re based in Europe (Slovenia). KeyCDN is good too.

        www.cdnperf.com is useful for comparing performance. They don’t list every CDN though.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative

    Bunny.net covers some of the use cases, like DNS and CDN. I think they just rolled out a WAF too.

    There’s also the “traditional” providers like AWS, Akamai, etc.

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• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Someone always chimes into these discussions with the experience of being DDOSed and Cloudflare being the only option to prevent it.

  Sounds a lot like a protection racket to me.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Companies like OVH have good DDoS protection too.

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