- Your business, your values, you're of course free to ignore Cloudflare if you disagree with their policies.
- What kind of support are they supposed to give their competitors that they aren't?
Yes, thank you for making my argument for me?
> How can a business, specifically a CDN, not be centralized?
A CDN could not be centralized in the market by having meaningful competition. Cloudflare is in front of 80% of the Alexa top 1 million sites. That's a lot of eggs in one basket.
> What kind of support are they supposed to give their competitors that they aren't?
That's my bad. I meant that using Cloudflare is not supporting their competitors.
For what it's worth, I use Cloudflare for half a dozen sites. But I also run a local IPFS node (a decentralized CDN) because it fetches IPFS hosted content faster than the Cloudflare IPFS proxy does and because I don't like my own traffic being beholden to Cloudflare if I can help it.
> Yes, thank you for making my argument for me?
Agreement isn't "making your argument for you". It is agreeing with your opinion. When discussing things with people, you often agree with things that they say - hopefully.
When people complain about centralization with CF the POV is not that CF is centralized in itself, but that much of the internet is centralized around CF.
OP who posted the original question? I don't see that they state why. I also don't see reasons in the comments. They could have other reasons. Which is fine, they asked a concrete question and they don't owe us reasons.
GP, who I'm replying to, stated some opinions on why one might wish to move off Cloudflare. I'm asking for clarifications on these vaguely stated opinions. If their only concern is the values, that's fine and it's why I didn't ask any clarifying question on that item. I asked questions about the two _other_ items.
I'll note that I am not a Cloudflare customer and haven't been since ~2019, just due to getting quoted lower rates by a competitor and our AE didn't want to or couldn't match. No one can ask me to move off Cloudflare at this point :)
IPFS? Internet Computer?
I know HN hates crypto, but isn't this one of it's main use cases?
