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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

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aliasxneo · 1789744916 · focus · HN ↗
Tunneling was something that recently fell out of the work I've been doing [1]. I've used Cloudflare Tunnels before but I just have low trust with them recently with how big they are getting. All of these nice things come at the cost of pushing _a lot_ of traffic through their systems.
[1]: <a href="https://dntls.substack.com/p/the-new-internet" rel="nofollow">https://dntls.substack.com/p/the-new-internet
1. simonw · 1789746884 · focus · HN ↗
  If there's any company in the world that can survive a lot of extra traffic being pushed through their systems it's Cloudflare.
  I bet these new tunnels end up being a fraction of a percentage point of their network traffic.
  1. bix6 · 1789747392 · focus · HN ↗
    It’s a concentration of power issue.
    robertlagrant · 1789764240 · focus · HN ↗
    Given they seem to mostly offer services that are about as easy to switch away from as you could hope for, compared to, say, companies who write loads of CF that only runs on AWS, and I can't imagine why this keeps on being said for Cloudflare specifically. What power do they have?
    mitxela · 1789774308 · focus · HN ↗
    It doesn't matter that they're easy to switch away from. It matters that people haven't actually switched away from them.
    robertlagrant · 1789820164 · focus · HN ↗
    Can you explain why it doesn't matter that they're easy to switch away from?
    mitxela · 1789823122 · focus · HN ↗
    Because it only matters whether people actually switch away from them.
    robertlagrant · 1789908807 · focus · HN ↗
    Why?

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