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This is a fair point. Imagine there had been a serious fire like OVH suffered or flooding that destroyed the data center. Would Cloudflare have been able to recover?



That's not what happened here. Their edge worked fine.

Business was mostly running as usual.

The OVH outage was immediate downtime.


Most likely, yes. They have enough customer lock-in that enough customers would stick with them even if it took them a week to rebuild everything from in other DCs.




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