CloudFlare's centralized services create uneven internet experience for users
By
nomilk
5mo ago· 5 min readenOpinion
92/100
Golden Brown
Bagelometer↗
Kettled twice. Extra chewy, extra trustworthy.
Score92TypeopinionSentimentnegative
Summary
The article critiques CloudFlare as a centralized service that, while convenient and free for website owners, creates a bifurcated internet experience. It argues that CloudFlare's CDN, DNS, and DDoS protection benefits primarily a "select group" of users, potentially degrading performance or access for others. The author expresses frustration that CloudFlare's dominance is reshaping the internet in ways that aren't universally beneficial, despite the service's technical reliability and popularity.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledCloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don't want to deal with separate services for CDN, DNS, basic DDOS protection and other (superficial) security needs.
You can have all these services in a one-stop-shop and you can have it all for free.
It's hard to pass up the offer and go for a commercial solution.
Cloudflare service is as stable as they come, their downtime and service interruption is within the same margin as other similar services.
Making the internet a little bit faster – for a select group of people
Follow up: Cloudflare: Making the internet a little bit faster – for a select group of people CloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don’t want to deal with separate services for CDN, DNS, basic DDOS protection and other (supe
