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> Cloudflare provides DNS services to 12 million websites, adding approximately 20,000 new customers every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare https:

> Cloudflare provides DNS services to 12 million websites, adding approximately 20,000 new customers every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare > Roughly five percent to 10 percent of web traffic now goes through CloudFlare https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protection/ https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protecti... (April 2018) > 10 trillion requests per month, which is nearly 10 percent of all Internet requests for more than 2.5 billion people worldwide https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2017/cloudflare-grows-enterprise-business-more-than-80-percent-year-over-year-amid-significant-product-rollouts/ https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2017/cloudflare-gr... (2017)

ilovecaching 8y ago
Do you know how many pops CF has compared to Akamai?
- Godel_unicode 8y ago
  Number of PoPs would be a pretty weak metric for a CDN, even if that's all they were.
  - ilovecaching 8y ago
    Number of pops is of course critical to a CDN both in providing more availability in a more diverse set of locations, but also in terms of providing a larger backbone and more capacity to protect again attacks and spikes.
- aboutruby 8y ago
  165 data centers: https://www.cloudflare.com/network/ https://www.cloudflare.com/network/
ilovecaching 8y ago
Also CF uses anycast geolocation, which is the easy fast way to market, but not nearly as reliable or controllable. You just start buying some colo and let the internet do its thing, and be at the mercy of their peers. Most bigger CDNs and content providers don’t do this for that reason.
- zackbloom 8y ago
  Do you work for one of those other CDN providers by chance? It certainly takes a fair bit of work to get an anycast network working, but it's not nearly the controversial move it was eight years ago.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y ago
  Have you ever setup and maintained anycast? I have, it’s far from “easy.”

ilovecaching 8y ago

Do you know how many pops CF has compared to Akamai?

Godel_unicode 8y ago
Number of PoPs would be a pretty weak metric for a CDN, even if that's all they were.
- ilovecaching 8y ago
  Number of pops is of course critical to a CDN both in providing more availability in a more diverse set of locations, but also in terms of providing a larger backbone and more capacity to protect again attacks and spikes.
aboutruby 8y ago
165 data centers: https://www.cloudflare.com/network/ https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

ilovecaching 8y ago

Also CF uses anycast geolocation, which is the easy fast way to market, but not nearly as reliable or controllable. You just start buying some colo and let the internet do its thing, and be at the mercy of their peers. Most bigger CDNs and content providers don’t do this for that reason.

zackbloom 8y ago
Do you work for one of those other CDN providers by chance? It certainly takes a fair bit of work to get an anycast network working, but it's not nearly the controversial move it was eight years ago.
eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y ago
Have you ever setup and maintained anycast? I have, it’s far from “easy.”