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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by josefresco on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:43AM (#19367195)
I too was curious about competitors so I searched and found the following (there are lots more). Granted some of these probably don't overlap perfectly with CF, but they do offer at least "hosted dns":

https://cloud.google.com/dns/

https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/premium-dns

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/dns/

https://dyn.com/dns/managed-dns/

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/freedns/ (free option)

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by mjlee on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:46AM (#19367212)
Cloudflare's DNS is probably the least exciting aspect of their product. The real value add is in their proxy/CDN, which is pretty difficult to compete with.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by cbzbc on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:41AM (#19367529)
The cloud services all have their own CDN/Proxies/WAFs - AWS has Cloudfront, Azure has edge cdn etc.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by adventured on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:22AM (#19367830)
None of those services is offering a low-hassle, free CDN & proxy for smaller sites. Nobody offers one for free anywhere on earth that is of the quality and scale that Cloudflare offers. That's what lured so many sites to their service so quickly in a very competitive landscape. If you've got a site that needs $0.50 per month in CDN service, they give it to you for free, along with various other benefits included at no cost. You can throw a cheap, low traffic site (or 20 of them) onto Cloudflare and never worry about cost (whether on the CDN side or otherwise), period. It's an immense cost benefit for lower traffic sites.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by ATsch on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:58AM (#19367641)
I haven't tried namecheap DNS recently, but I used to use it. I hated DNS. It would just take hours and hours for any change to propagate, regardless of TTL and it was just extremely painful to work with. I thought this was just the way DNS was, until I switched to cloudflare. Suddenly, new records appeared instantly and changes applied in seconds or minutes it felt like pure magic.

So, that's my review of Namecheap freeDNS. I suppose they make it bad on purpose so people upgrade to their premium DNS?

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by asah on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:08AM (#19367719)
+1 love namecheap but DNS would regularly fail esp "v2"
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by dkersten on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:36AM (#19368515)
I’ve been using namecheaps free DNS work in recent weeks and it propagated super quickly (2 or 3 minutes, I used a dns checker to see and various hosts around the globe all saw the changes).

For my own stuff, I use digitalocean for hosting so use their nameservers for DNS.

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by sascha_sl on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:45AM (#19367206)
I'd suggest Cloudflare's main product is the WAF / DDoS protection / concealment, the CDN is a nice plus of course but as soon as you start to really use it they ask you to upgrade anyway.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by AznHisoka on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:09AM (#19367339)
It is also the most dangerous if they become the only dominant player. They could theoretically prevent any Google competitors from popping up.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by adrr on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:33AM (#19368485)
Are they even close to becoming the dominant player? Most startups I know use fastly or CloudFront. The big players all use Akamai. I read somewhere that Akamai serves 350 of the top 500 ecommerce sites in the US.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by Gigablah on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:54AM (#19367257)
For DNS there's also https://ns1.com/ .
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:39AM (#19368551)
They appear to skip directly from a free tier to "Contact us for pricing". That does not inspire confidence.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by bobjordan on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:46AM (#19369293)
I found the enterprise pricing quickly when I wanted CDN inside China.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by pjc50 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:52AM (#19367249)
DNS is a sideline for CF, it's the DDOS-resistant CDN that people choose them for.
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