<story><title>Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a bit of a sad story, but maybe you&amp;#x27;ll like this read about one of the guys who laid the foundation for their tech and his sad decline: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really liked the stories of his skill when he was in his prime. Very inspiring.</text></item><item><author>morrbo</author><text>II love cloudflare. It has really helped out with several sites&amp;#x2F;projects that I have worked on and the service is top notch. I am also an investor. I tend to invest in stuff which I use a lot or trust&amp;#x2F;respect the employees. Weirdly what made me really invest is the level of geekiness on the company. I remember seeing you guys using a lava lamp wall to generate entropy and just thought &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s awesome&amp;quot;. I just wanted to say don&amp;#x27;t change. Your lz4 implementation, aes gcm golang optimizations have directly benefitted me. Coupled with really high quality post mortem articles, articles on interesting things like compression, encryption, networking, a few random articles (the privacy focussed file system recently comes to mind, written at the same time I was making my own distributed fs) just leave me with a lot of respect for the culture there.&lt;p&gt;I was worried a bit when I saw the initial IPO that the free tier would leave (despite promises it wouldn&amp;#x27;t) but that doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be the case. Literally the only bad thing I&amp;#x27;ve seen on the site is recently you switched from recaptcha to a new one that I had a real tough time with logging in today - it was a bit glitchy on my pc. The only suggestion I thought of as well would be a simple &amp;quot;maintenance mode&amp;quot; similar to the &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m under attack mode&amp;quot; which would allow those of us without super-ha to quickly toggle on something to pop up a &amp;quot;sorry server&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;site is down form maintenance page without having to mess with our proxies&amp;#x2F;web servers.&lt;p&gt;Anyway I know this comes across as totally kissing-ass but I just wanted to say thanks to someone who actually works there. Everyone fat fingers stuff every now and again,don&amp;#x27;t sweat it.</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Read our S-1, it&amp;#x27;s all in there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;Archives&amp;#x2F;edgar&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;1477333&amp;#x2F;000119312519222176&amp;#x2F;d735023ds1.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;Archives&amp;#x2F;edgar&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;1477333&amp;#x2F;000119312519...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>Honest question: I&amp;#x27;ve never really understood the back of the napkin math of how Cloudflare functions economically, which I feel would go a long way towards my understanding of why&amp;#x2F;how they were able to become such an integral and generally positive part of the Internet.&lt;p&gt;Did they have some crazy in to get cheap bandwidth? Did they bet big on bandwidth prices falling? Did they figure something else out that nobody saw? Do they just to a tremendous job of migrating sites from free to paid plans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>I dont know how I missed the Cloudflare IPO and this Story. So thanks for posting it. Extremely good writing, though the story was very sad.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there are any relationship between FTD and how clever a person or how much brain a person uses.</text></comment>
<story><title>Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a bit of a sad story, but maybe you&amp;#x27;ll like this read about one of the guys who laid the foundation for their tech and his sad decline: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really liked the stories of his skill when he was in his prime. Very inspiring.</text></item><item><author>morrbo</author><text>II love cloudflare. It has really helped out with several sites&amp;#x2F;projects that I have worked on and the service is top notch. I am also an investor. I tend to invest in stuff which I use a lot or trust&amp;#x2F;respect the employees. Weirdly what made me really invest is the level of geekiness on the company. I remember seeing you guys using a lava lamp wall to generate entropy and just thought &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s awesome&amp;quot;. I just wanted to say don&amp;#x27;t change. Your lz4 implementation, aes gcm golang optimizations have directly benefitted me. Coupled with really high quality post mortem articles, articles on interesting things like compression, encryption, networking, a few random articles (the privacy focussed file system recently comes to mind, written at the same time I was making my own distributed fs) just leave me with a lot of respect for the culture there.&lt;p&gt;I was worried a bit when I saw the initial IPO that the free tier would leave (despite promises it wouldn&amp;#x27;t) but that doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be the case. Literally the only bad thing I&amp;#x27;ve seen on the site is recently you switched from recaptcha to a new one that I had a real tough time with logging in today - it was a bit glitchy on my pc. The only suggestion I thought of as well would be a simple &amp;quot;maintenance mode&amp;quot; similar to the &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m under attack mode&amp;quot; which would allow those of us without super-ha to quickly toggle on something to pop up a &amp;quot;sorry server&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;site is down form maintenance page without having to mess with our proxies&amp;#x2F;web servers.&lt;p&gt;Anyway I know this comes across as totally kissing-ass but I just wanted to say thanks to someone who actually works there. Everyone fat fingers stuff every now and again,don&amp;#x27;t sweat it.</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Read our S-1, it&amp;#x27;s all in there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;Archives&amp;#x2F;edgar&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;1477333&amp;#x2F;000119312519222176&amp;#x2F;d735023ds1.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sec.gov&amp;#x2F;Archives&amp;#x2F;edgar&amp;#x2F;data&amp;#x2F;1477333&amp;#x2F;000119312519...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>Honest question: I&amp;#x27;ve never really understood the back of the napkin math of how Cloudflare functions economically, which I feel would go a long way towards my understanding of why&amp;#x2F;how they were able to become such an integral and generally positive part of the Internet.&lt;p&gt;Did they have some crazy in to get cheap bandwidth? Did they bet big on bandwidth prices falling? Did they figure something else out that nobody saw? Do they just to a tremendous job of migrating sites from free to paid plans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janee</author><text>Sounds lame but this story really touched me. I recently visited a family member who&amp;#x27;s nearing the end and it broke my heart to see them in that condition.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what to take from this. But thank you for sharing it</text></comment>