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Re:Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Micros... by stepbeek on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:28AM (#23676936)
Man, I really want to say we don't because of the implications of too centralised an internet, but there's no way it isn't a transitive dependency.
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Re:Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Micros... by syberspace on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:45AM (#23677055)
What the hell are you building that there has to be Cloudflare in the dependency tree at some point?
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Re:Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Micros... by sgtfrankieboy on Monday June 29, 2020 @09:54AM (#23677607)
Well for our use case their caching infrastructure handles 63% of all our traffic and 70% of our bandwidth.

We'd have to basically quadruple our expenses without CF. Not to mention their available protections.

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Re:Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Micros... by Lammy on Monday June 29, 2020 @09:05AM (#23677190)
Any javascript CDN?
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Re:Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Micros... by classified on Monday June 29, 2020 @11:14AM (#23678343)
I'm sure there are more Node.js modules for that than you can count.
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