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Never seen it this bad (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Something like 40% of the top 100k sites use Cloudflare. Builtwith says 44%: https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Cloudflare/High-Traffic-Volume

The pricing on their paid plans is very competitive. For small to medium sites, it's orders of magnitude cheaper than Akamai. The WAF and DDoS protection is pretty good too.

The largest sites like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc have their own CDNs, including servers they provide to large ISPs for free since it significantly reduces upstream bandwidth usage (Netflix call this Open Connect; Meta's is Facebook/Meta Network Appliance). Outside of the largest sites, you'd be surprised how many companies rely on Cloudflare. It's kinda scary.