There are no alternatives, and those alternatives that did exist back in the day, had to shut down due to either going out of business or not being able to keep a paygo model.
replyNot everybody needs cloudflare, but those that need it and aren't major enterprises, have no other option.
Bunny.net? Doesn't have near the same feature set as Cloudflare, but the essentials are there and you can easily pay as you go with a credit card.
replyTheir WAF isn't there yet, the moment it can build the expressions you can build with CF (and allows you to have as much visibility into the traffic as CF does), then it might be a solid option, assuming they have the compute/network capacity.
replyLots of people who think they need Cloudflare don't. What are you using it for?
replyL7 DDoS protection and global routing + CDN, there is not a single paygo provider that can handle the capacity CF can, especially not at this price range (mitigated attacks distributed from approximately 50-90k ips, adding up to about 300-700k rps).
replyWe tried Stackpath, Imperva (Incapsula back in the day), etc but they were either too expensive or went out of business.
> especially not at this price range
replypay peanuts, get monkeys
Do you not feel concern about you and everybody else deciding to put ALL of their eggs into one basket like this?
replyI would bet money that most people who use CF now are already hosting their endpoints at a single provider. I don't think most people care until it actually becomes enough of a problem.
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