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by nora-puchreiner 1059 days ago
They have own Autonomous Systems with own anycast IP addresses.

It is quite expensive for an indie project. Not to mention legal support for compliance in every country of presence. To block 0.x% of visitors coming from CloudFlare is much cheaper for a small project than to go this road.
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growse 1059 days ago
> They have own Autonomous Systems with own anycast IP addresses.

> It is quite expensive for an indie project. Not to mention legal support for compliance in every country of presence. To block 0.x% of visitors coming from CloudFlare is much cheaper for a small project than to go this road.

I don't buy this. I'm running my own AS and anycast services for £10pm (my ISP are sponsoring my allocations from RIPE).

Also, it feels like Cloudflare's DNS service is more than just 0.x% of the internet....?

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ylere 1059 days ago
£10 GBP a month for a AS with an IPv4+IPv6 subnet + worldwide POPs that allow you to advertise your subnets over BGP? How did you pull that off? I've researched this a while ago and just the IPv4 subnet alone was at least 10x that amount if you are OK with leasing it from less reputable sources.
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growse 1058 days ago
I didn't say IPv4 :p

You're right, if you've got a legacy internet requirement then that adds another grand a year to your costs. But I disagree that it's "quite expensive for an indie project", especially one that's so popular it needs to run it's own CDN.

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