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While I love the concept of Cloudflare and know and like many of the people behind it I'm no longer promoting them. Cloudflare royally messed up and then messed up their response as well. I can forgive the former but I have a hard time with the latter. Also, unless your site is high traffic or get hit with DDOS attacks I don't see any need for it. Just optimize your site and you'll be fine even without a CDN.

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Ha for a second I thought you were talking about the ordeal with the Daily Stormer ;)

While he's talking about cloudbleed that affair does raise questions as to their reliability. A spur of the moment decision like that doesn't give much confidence in their integrity. It's fully understandable of course (they're Nazis) but it was still a decision to terminate service with no warning. You're probably safe from such things if you're not a Nazi, but it's not 100% safe.

First they came for the Nazis...

Is it weird that for a certain category of tech company that I intuit would learn from their mistakes, I trust them more _because_ they've had one catastrophic failure? And just sort of assume that many of the ones who haven't are still riding on a wave of blissful ignorance? Maybe that's nonsense, but it's still a thought that occupies my mind.

I think you should at least take a good look at how they handled that one catastrophic failure, and also consider whether it was the result of an unfortunate accident or a momentary lapse, rather than just the first of many failures-waiting-to-happen that actually happened.

I would totally agree with you had they not blown their chance to handle this responsibly. The finger pointing and downplaying of what had happened totally destroyed my will to give them the benefit of the doubt in that respect.

What did they mess up?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed

If you have a global audience, using a CDN can make a lot of sense. Most content will be static and having that part close to the user enhances the experience a lot.

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