Comment on Cloudflare took down our site after trying to force us to pay $120k within 24h

• crazyminner@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course there was. They’re a casino, that’s their game. Lie and trick to get a better outcome.

  Not defending CF. This article has me thinking maybe I should move to something from the open source community.

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  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Regardless of whether this is the whole story or not, the advice at the bottom to at least limit your CF dependence is a good idea.

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  • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just based on cf response I’m guessing lawyers were threatened along with looking for another cdn.

    Are there any open source options? Just based on scale I can’t think of any

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the problem with open source here is that open source isn’t really a solution… the software is kinda irrelevant: it’s the CDN itself - the hardware and networks - that’s the only important thing… that’s not something you can really open source. that’s just something you have to pay someone for

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