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
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.
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
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.
At which point I’ll worry. Until then there are far better targets.