Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
by halapro on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:21PM
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I reckon AWS is "free enough" for most of its users, but it's not as easy nor as safe for the common user.
Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
by mr_windfrog on Saturday December 06, 2025 @03:30AM
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Totally agree, AWS's free tier is great for many users, but it can definitely be tricky and risky for the average person.
It still surprises me that there are basically no free alternatives comparable to Cloudflare. Putting everything on CF creates a pretty serious single point of failure.
It's strange that in most industries you have at least two major players, like Coke vs. Pepsi or Nike vs. Adidas. But in the CDN/edge space, there doesn't seem to be a real free competitor that matches Cloudflare's feature set.
It feels very unhealthy for the ecosystem. Does anyone know why this is the case?