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		jokoon 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem I don't understand what's the business of cloudflare. They just sell proxies, to whoever. Why are they the only company doing ddos protection? I just don't get it.

BOOSTERHIDROGEN 5 months ago | [–]

Momentum, I guess, pretty much like you wouldn’t get fired for using AWS or IBM (if that’s still the case now).

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