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But Cloudflare are awesome
Cloudflare is becoming entrenched in every aspect of hosting. It's all fine and dandy until they're bought by the likes of Google, or Meta.
I always thought Cloudflare could become shit by itself. I never thought about someone like Google buying them. Governments wouldn't allow such a monopoly, right, right? oh shit
At which point I'll worry. Until then there are far better targets.
So the argument is that they're too large, and nothing else?
It's kind of a blessing and a curse. The larger a CDN is the more resilient it is to e.g. DDoS attacks which hugely favours Cloudflare. It unfortunately also means if anything happens to Cloudflare most of the internet will go down even though the internet itself should be decentralised by design. What can happen to Cloudflare you might ask. Well anything. Being purchased by someone like Google would be bad for privacy, an incident could force Cloudflare to go down for an undetermined amount of time like what happened to Facebook a while back.
For me it's that they needlessly centralise the internet, and that's their goal too.
Suddenly one data centre goes down and the whole internet will too.
And data centres do go down, one of Google's most recent outages happened in an entire region and they were unable to badge into the building because that also relied on Google infrastructure.