They get shit on a lot here. Why? What do they do and how is that different from other companies that offer similar services?

What I know of them: they offer DDS brute force/spam protection for websites.

  • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    They get hated on because :

    • they inspect packets. They terminate the TLS sessions at their servers and reencrypt to forward to the backend. This allows them to analyze the data to spot spam, optimize compression and such

    • they are used everywhere. If they go down, 30% of the internet goes with them.

      • scumola@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Both points are bad. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The Internet was created to be run by millions of servers and works best that way. Funneling everything through one company is just a bad idea in general.