Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click
by idlewords on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:11PM
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Calling Cloudflare decentralized because it's not as big or strict as AWS is a really weak definition of decentralized.
My criticism is fundamentally structural. No matter how great a company CloudFlare might be right now, we shouldn't be creating single-company points of failure for big pieces of the Internet.
The net today is full of small-to-medium hosting providers like Linode, in a variety of locations, that offer a good balance between technical complexity and ease of setup and use. It is not obvious to me why this all needs to sit behind a centrally-controlled CDN, however enlightened.
I also think your fear of DDoS is exaggerated, at least for personal sites and sites on my scale (thousands of users).
My criticism is fundamentally structural. No matter how great a company CloudFlare might be right now, we shouldn't be creating single-company points of failure for big pieces of the Internet.
The net today is full of small-to-medium hosting providers like Linode, in a variety of locations, that offer a good balance between technical complexity and ease of setup and use. It is not obvious to me why this all needs to sit behind a centrally-controlled CDN, however enlightened.
I also think your fear of DDoS is exaggerated, at least for personal sites and sites on my scale (thousands of users).