> Did they figure something else out that nobody saw?
I may not have a full scope of the history, but my own experience with DDoS protection was quite different. Whilst providers offered anti ddos protection through GRE tunnels and dedicated machines behind DDoS appliances and a heavy null route hand, Cloudflare had a simple few-click solution that worked at the web application level making things a lot easier and, also, allowing for features like caching, and thus, CDN benefit from a global network. Further, they've maximized performance on their machines, and as a result, Cloudflare is wicked fast.
Cloudflare does what it does really well and has built additional services on their global network that make a lot of a sense and provide a lot of value.
This has been my experience too, CF is just so easy to migrate to and to configure once you're there.
If AWS was able to offer a single click "DDOS protection and CDN" feature with similar pricing and features as Cloudflare then I'd consider it since most of our infrastructure is on AWS but at the moment they don't offer anything nearly as competitive. Just the Cloudfront bandwidth costs alone would dwarf our total infrastructure costs.
Indeed. I think I understand the argument claiming Cloudflare is a SPOF. However, if you're actually dealing with DDoS attacks with any kind of regularity, you're likely to have better uptime with them than without.
I may not have a full scope of the history, but my own experience with DDoS protection was quite different. Whilst providers offered anti ddos protection through GRE tunnels and dedicated machines behind DDoS appliances and a heavy null route hand, Cloudflare had a simple few-click solution that worked at the web application level making things a lot easier and, also, allowing for features like caching, and thus, CDN benefit from a global network. Further, they've maximized performance on their machines, and as a result, Cloudflare is wicked fast.
Cloudflare does what it does really well and has built additional services on their global network that make a lot of a sense and provide a lot of value.
Hats off to CF.