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by slothsarecool 111 days ago
There are no alternatives, and those alternatives that did exist back in the day, had to shut down due to either going out of business or not being able to keep a paygo model.

Not everybody needs cloudflare, but those that need it and aren't major enterprises, have no other option.
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Sanzig 111 days ago
Bunny.net? Doesn't have near the same feature set as Cloudflare, but the essentials are there and you can easily pay as you go with a credit card.
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slothsarecool 111 days ago
Their WAF isn't there yet, the moment it can build the expressions you can build with CF (and allows you to have as much visibility into the traffic as CF does), then it might be a solid option, assuming they have the compute/network capacity.
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pocksuppet 111 days ago
Lots of people who think they need Cloudflare don't. What are you using it for?
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slothsarecool 111 days ago
L7 DDoS protection and global routing + CDN, there is not a single paygo provider that can handle the capacity CF can, especially not at this price range (mitigated attacks distributed from approximately 50-90k ips, adding up to about 300-700k rps).

We tried Stackpath, Imperva (Incapsula back in the day), etc but they were either too expensive or went out of business.

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blibble 111 days ago
> especially not at this price range

pay peanuts, get monkeys

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