Oh - we're back to talking about trust & Cloudflare again.
Cloudflare have always hosted [] booter / stresser / DDoS-for-hire sites. Right now I can find 8 sites on their network when I search for "booter" (it's been higher). So Cloudflare are responsible for keeping criminal activity online, and defending them from visibility to their downstream hosts, who might otherwise cut them off.
Cloudflare also sell DDoS protection from the same criminals. Because they host them, they can see where attacks will happen next - an advantage other big CDNs won't tolerate.
That adds up to a protection racket - in the 90s this type of shady business wouldn't have been able to source connectivity. But now they're the good guys :( I don't get it.
[] Cloudflare have tended to cry "we don't host anything!". But if they stopped providing service, these sites probably couldn't exist. I call that mission-critical hosting.
Cloudflare have always hosted [] booter / stresser / DDoS-for-hire sites. Right now I can find 8 sites on their network when I search for "booter" (it's been higher). So Cloudflare are responsible for keeping criminal activity online, and defending them from visibility to their downstream hosts, who might otherwise cut them off.
Cloudflare also sell DDoS protection from the same criminals. Because they host them, they can see where attacks will happen next - an advantage other big CDNs won't tolerate.
That adds up to a protection racket - in the 90s this type of shady business wouldn't have been able to source connectivity. But now they're the good guys :( I don't get it.
[] Cloudflare have tended to cry "we don't host anything!". But if they stopped providing service, these sites probably couldn't exist. I call that mission-critical hosting.