Maybe instead of asking "questions" to a corporation which their only interest is profit, is now beholden Wall Street and wouldn't care what we think, we should look for answers and alternatives like BunnyCDN [0], Anubis [1], etc.
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Bunny has raised money from VC which indicates it’s going the “Wall Street” path.
Anubis is a bot firewall not a CDN.
> Bunny has raised money from VC which indicates it’s going the “Wall Street” path.
Yet it is an available alternative to Cloudflare that is not on Wall Street (a public company).
If you want to do this 100% yourself there is Apache Traffic Control.
https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol
> Anubis is a bot firewall not a CDN.
For now. If we support alternatives they can grow into an open source CDN.
Anubis is a piece of software not a CDN service.
You realize to run a CDN you have to buy massive amounts of bandwidth and computers? DIY here belies a misunderstanding of what it takes to be DOS resistant and also what it takes to actually have CDN deliver a performance benefit.
This is a great idea for Anubis, funding future development and it being an alternative CDN.
Customers on the enterprise plan can either use Anubis's Managed CDN or host Anubis themselves via a enterprise license!
They can directly receive tech support from the creator of Anubis. (as long as they pay on the enterprise plan)
I don't see a problem with this and it can turn Anubis from "a piece of software" into a CDN.
Has anyone from the Anubis project said anything about aspiring to transform into a CDN?
Maybe they can also start a marketplace to buy and sell digital goods, like NFTs.
I wouldn't trust a provider that has "Excellent (underlined) star star star star star STAR TrustPilot 4.8 on G2" on their landing page. I bet they are also award winning, and 150 best place to work at. Really shows they have no taste.
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I don't remember telling anyone to trust the reviews?
I think it is healthy to try alternatives to Cloudflare and then come to your own decision.
I'm not saying you did, but for me things like what I mentioned are red flags. They also use C#—another red flag. There's OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, etc—all are private companies that aren't on Wall Street.
No.
DigitalOcean is owned by Wall Street.
Only Hetzner is a good alternative CDN.
You're right, DO is public.
Ah yes because both of those alternatives are non-profits right ?
You can sponsor Anubis right now and start supporting alternatives.
I think you are misunderstanding what cloudflare provides if you think Anubis is an alternative. Even if we only consider bot protection they are completely different solutions.
> I think you are misunderstanding what cloudflare provides if you think Anubis is an alternative...
Do you have an open source alternative especially if you are donating to the project?
Because I would to see Anubis and other alternatives thrive much more than closed ones like Cloudflare.
CDN are by essence proprietary because they are infrastructure vendors. They can be built with open source software but what they are selling isn't software, it's physical servers. The alternative is going on-prem which is impossible for CDN if you aren't google or meta.