And to be blunt, I'd even claim that the middle ground is superior for most people than AWS, Cloudfare et al.
I have limited experience with AWS, but they always seem to be having problems that ruin everything that they don't acknowledge. That's what I get from people at the office who have to use it to support a particular customer. Nothing we do ever seems to run properly on it, even though our software is fine everywhere else. We're trying to push that customer off to using their own hardware, and they agreed with us that it's necessary but for different reasons.
Cloudfare, I don't even understand why anyone would use it. I understand the benefits it claims to provide, but you can get those without having an external MITM proxy that can spew information all over the Internet with one bug.
I have limited experience with AWS, but they always seem to be having problems that ruin everything that they don't acknowledge. That's what I get from people at the office who have to use it to support a particular customer. Nothing we do ever seems to run properly on it, even though our software is fine everywhere else. We're trying to push that customer off to using their own hardware, and they agreed with us that it's necessary but for different reasons.
Cloudfare, I don't even understand why anyone would use it. I understand the benefits it claims to provide, but you can get those without having an external MITM proxy that can spew information all over the Internet with one bug.