[Ancapistani]

> but for most smaller sites you're trusting someone to host it, so how is Cloudflare any different than some other random provider

Easy - you’re trusting someone, true, but it’s likely not the same person that someone else is trusting.

With Cloudflare, pretty much everyone is trusting the same party. Compromising Cloudflare compromises everyone.

[DoctorOW]

> Easy - you’re trusting someone, true, but it’s likely not the same person that someone else is trusting.

I dunno if that's true. I mean I can name 5 companies and generally speaking narrow it down to the owner of the hardware (or the owner of the owner of the hardware) or at the very least a company with enough resources that if they want your content they can take it.

[twelve40]

So the real problem seems to be that they are a monopoly? But how is that their fault? they invented the low-cost CDN market, before them we mostly just had Akamai that hosted Wimbledon-size websites and streams for $$$$.

PS. also unclear where else I can get similar services - no affiliation with them, just to run a small website.