Comcast-Time Warner merger: CloudFlare's fare flare fair warning

Distributed web host CloudFlare says its costs rise dramatically in places where telcos have little to no competition. The company, which is hired by website owners to rapidly sling pages and other stuff at visitors, today published a report detailing its peering operations – and the deals it signs with internet connection …

[Franklin]

"Distributed web host CloudFlare says its costs rise dramatically..."

Don't let them hear you say the dreaded words "web host." Cloudflare serves up huge quantities of spam sites, malware, and phish sites...but its abuse team will quickly point out "we are not a Web host and therefore we will not/do not have to/cannot take any action against abuse on our network, now be off to bother someone else" if you file an abuse report.

[diodesign]

Re: Franklin

Imagine my concern ;-)

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[Charlie Clark]

It's a CDN so whether it hosts or not is a bit moot, especially as it's using other companies servers to host its caching infrastructure. I'm not surprised you get a knockback from the abuse team. What particular problem do you want them to solve?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's more like a CDN/host hybrid. It takes over a site's DNS and routes all traffic through the CF infrastructure, for DDoS mitigation etc. And it has a free tier that takes about 3 minutes to set up... they're kinda asking for trouble with spammers/phishers/etc.