[noname120]

Does Cloudflare have a history of sunsetting products they've bought? Acquisitions by Google, Apple, Meta, etc. are yellow flags that the product may cease to exist soon. I wonder if Cloudflare has a better track record in that regard.

[godzillabrennus]

No one sunsets products like Google.

I’m in the middle of transferring all my domains from Squarespace thanks to Googles sale of that business to that incredibly lousy vendor.

[CSSer]

Ugh, same. You’re right. Nothing is safe at Google or even a safe bet with Google. Look at third-party cookies. I can’t believe there isn’t outrage in the streets over the fact that they beat that drum for four straight years and now they suddenly have a change of heart.

At some point their rationale has to become irrelevant. It’s simply unprofessional behavior.

[b0ner_t0ner]

> Nothing is safe at Google

Google Ads

[CSSer]

This narrative might be shifting in realtime with the LLM race and privacy wars. How do I advertise in Gemini? Do Google users want me to? I’ve worked in and around digital advertising and marketing for the better part of a decade. We look at Google with all the admiration one would have for a pet crocodile.

[blooalien]

May I inquire who you're moving to, and where I might browse to in order to follow you away from Squarespace / Google Domains? :)

[godzillabrennus]

NameCheap for the ones they support. I don’t like how tightly wound Cloudflare domains are with the account. I’m nervous about putting too many eggs in one basket with them. I sometimes need to switch hosting a domain in a cloudflare account with another cloudflare account. They don’t let you do that without moving a domain to a third party registrar first. I just shortened that process.

[pxx]

the correct answer I think is cloudflare? I'm a little wary of internet homogenization like this but I haven't the time to worry about this sort of thing for my spare one-off domains

[graton]

I have moved all of mine to Cloudflare.

[_0xdd]

This is how I ended up on Cloudflare. Burn by Google yet again.

[immibis]

Now we wait until you get burned by Cloudflare. Have we already forgotten the "We've discovered a technical problem with your domain: pay us $150,000 or fuck off"

[tomschlick]

Not that I'm aware of and this is likely now just a cloudflare worker that returns the IP they already have. I would imagine maintenance is basically zero as its feature complete.

[szundi]

True but there is no such thing as zero maintenance