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Ask HN: Are you leaving Cloudflare over the recent drama?

21 pointsby jayFellows11 months ago
I&#x27;ve seen lots of bad PR for Cloudflare recently (at least on YouTube and X). Seems to be related to poor-form sales tactics (lure in users for cheap and later require they up their plan or close their account). And indeed, the stories I&#x27;m seeing are pretty shocking and certainly hurt my perception of the company.<p>This is seriously making me reconsider Cloudflare as the primary service I use (Pages&#x2F;Workers, KV, D1, R2, CDN, Domains, etc).<p>Has this motivated you to leave Cloudflare?<p>If so, what have you replaced it with?

5 comments

jamesponddotco11 months ago
I left them a long time ago, as I felt—and still do—like the internet was too dependent on them. None of my projects ever needed DDoS protection though, so I mostly used them for DNS and caching at the edge.<p>If I ever needed DDoS protection it&#x27;d be nice to know of alternatives, if anyone has any to recommend. My provider—Hetzner—provides protection to some degree, but I&#x27;m sure a big attack would lead to black-hole routing.
andersa11 months ago
Of course not. There is no alternative. No, it doesn&#x27;t count as an alternative if it&#x27;s not in the same price range. This specifically applies to R2.<p>Will keep using it until I can&#x27;t anymore.
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tuttyboy11 months ago
What&#x27;s the recent drama?
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mikeywazowski11 months ago
I&#x27;m currently on their free plan, which is pretty good. As long as they offer it, I&#x27;m not likely to leave. If I was on a paid plan it might be a different story, although I can&#x27;t think of any alternatives off the top of my head, so maybe not!
delduca11 months ago
Yes, I am afraid to recommend it for my clientes.