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by nikolqy 1477 days ago
It is. I mean there's plenty of other software out there. Cloudflare has a blog about it. I tested wrk on CloudFront and they really do count Every. Single. Request. It's insane, but I don't think it's common enough to really hear about it. Cloudflare doesn't protect against DDoS for the most part though. Spamming a non-cached content on an average Cloudflare site is enough to crush it. Especially if you're logged in already. As much as these services claim to do, they really don't without extra fees and complex configuration.

TL;DR Do your own content distribution and app firewall solution. It's cheaper and it'll perform better. That's why Facebook and the big guys aren't using cloud services. Even Google uses their own private networks. CDN's are a scam if they're charging per request.

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>> Even Google uses their own private networks.

Of course they do.