Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

Posted by adulion 2 hours ago

Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare(ciphercue.com)

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bildung 1 hour ago|

I'd also be interested in share of companies using a CDN in the first place. UK has 17k sites, while France and Germany, so countries with about equal and higher population than the UK, have only 4k and 6k sites behind a CDN.

I can hardly imagine there being so many more big companies in the UK, so it's either cargo-culting webscale deployment in the UK, or usage of more conservative stacks in France and Germany?

embedding-shape 1 hour ago||

> I can hardly imagine there being so many more big companies in the UK, so it's either cargo-culting webscale deployment in the UK, or usage of more conservative stacks in France and Germany?

Maybe our countries are just small enough to not be overwhelmed by traffic? Most websites I've built and launched for Spanish national companies, that only have other Spaniards as users and customers, haven't needed any CDN at all, because you don't suddenly get 1K req/s. Meanwhile, launch a global website in English, that even get the slightest amount of popular, and all of a sudden you reach 1K req/s very quickly. Add on top that people usually don't even give two cents about performance, and adding CDN on top as a saving grace seems like an easy tradeoff.

So, why add a CDN when you don't need it? :) Probably 80% of everything I've ever deployed never needed a CDN in the first place, but I also save it as a thing in my toolbox to be used sparingly, rather than a default thing I slap on top of everything.

ivlad 1 hour ago||

nginx can do about 20krps per CPU for static files. You only need CDN if you want to improve time to DOM loaded in locations where time to first byte is over ~100ms and can be improved with local caching.

If all your users are in Spain and you don’t care how fast your site loads for a techbro in California, you indeed don’t need CDN.

wiether 1 hour ago|||

Their index being paywalled, it's not possible to answer about its content.

I wanted to check if the 5 customers for which I already did a change on their Cloudflare settings today where on the list, but can't do.

pajamasam 1 hour ago||

I'd be interested in what data they're using in the first place. It looks like their data is behind a paywall.

Also, funny that their page with for "Companies running Cloudflare" says there are only "887 European organisations using Cloudflare."

dakolli 1 hour ago||

In the late 90s and early 2000s the NSA and other US intelligence agencies underwent massive efforts to basically privatize the gathering of intelligence. Its a lot easier to fund your "total information awarness" initiatives via public markets and private investors than to ask congress for money to do so. So they did just that.

"In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contacted Unspam Technologies, asking, "Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?" The DHS' email served as the impetus for Cloudflare, a technology company Prince co-founded with Holloway and fellow Harvard Business School graduate Michelle Zatlyn the following year."

--Matthew Prince's Wikipedia page.

Dont for a second think cloudflare's generous free tier offerings are out of the goodness of their heart. They're a giant fkin MiTM project for the US governemnt. And of course, cloudflare isn't the only one.

tonyhart7 56 minutes ago||

so instead of developing actual competent solution, European complaining about why US tech dominate ?????

what stopping europe from using their home ground solution ??? nothing

this is just a skill issue take

chrocni380 1 hour ago||

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Steve16384 1 hour ago|

How did you extrapolate that leap of logic? Maybe we suck at business.

ilikerashers 1 hour ago||

We have stagnant economies with slow adopters and shallow capital markets. EU tech companies are working with hands tied behind their backs.

The US deserves it's success.

tunahanfaruksav 1 hour ago||

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iamislida 1 hour ago||

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schnebbau 1 hour ago|

Yeah because it's priced well and it works. It's a no-brainer. (Also if it does go down, well so has everyone else so no big deal)

Also in this list of GOATed companies: Tailscale, Ubiquiti.