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h27 commented on Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack   justfuckingusecloudflare.... · Posted by u/MyNameIsTito
h27 · 4 days ago
I love Cloudflare. A lot. But I don't love that they refuse to address the fact their cloud has a single fault zone.

Customers can not, no matter how hard they try, build highly available services using Cloudflare.

They are quite proud of it too if you read the smugness in their blogs about having just 1 region: Earth... Yet they keep having global outages.

I can no longer recommend them.

h27 commented on Global DNS State, Part 2 – DNS Centralisation   reconwave.com/blog/post/d... · Posted by u/yatralalala
h27 · 24 days ago
From the page:

Avoid stacking everything on a single vendor when it really matters (DNS + CDN + WAF + hosting all in one basket).

I'm not sure I understand several of the statements in this article, such as the above. If my entire service is built on Cloudflare (Workers, DNS, CDN, WAF), moving my DNS to GoDaddy doesn't improve my site's reliability. The only way I'd improve reliability is by having full redundancy of each component, end to end. In other words, a region or availability zone.

There's an industry gap for good alternatives to Cloudflare, but they already make so little money for the value they're providing, why bother?

u/h27

KarmaCake day3December 5, 2025View Original