Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 1 day agoHow 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.
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.
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.
lena@gregtech.eu 1 day ago
Wow, bunny is second in query speed, just below cloudflare. Impressive!