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If I'm correct off the top of my head, most people aren't going to see cloudflare as being responsible for BuyVM DDOS protection. They're not smart enough, if they were they'd have been sending complaints to upstream providers this whole time, probably even lobbying for their ISPs to drop Cogent, Level3, etc for allowing them to connect to "bad" sites. They're going to see BuyVM, and send complaints there accordingly. Aside from the port and service limitations of direct free CF service, that's a huge difference.
You would probably get some very minor extra latency, probably 2-3ms max if anything at all.
I think "relatively safe" is the best anyone can ask for right now. If we work from the theory that these US companies will continue to stretch further and further to silence people, I don't think we can look at any company in any place in the world and say "this company is definitely safe from any future escalation of these events."
There are plenty of companies in countries that thrive on being neutral, but I don't think you can find many, if any, hosting related companies that do absolutely no business with any company that is owned, operated, or has a controlling stake by someone in the US. I mean, what if tomorrow a huge US company said to Supermicro and Dell "if you sell to this company we'll stop ordering from you." The possibilities for using economic harm as a tool for forcing censorship are far more extensive than most people like to think about.
We hope it never escalates that far, but let's not kid ourselves about what "could" happen if we're talking about the theoretical on what that might be, where it hasn't yet. And that, I think, is my best case for why Fran is as safe of a bet as you can hope for in 2020.
Random thought I know. Just the way my mind is working today. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
@apples2 Personally I would go with @Francisco BuyVM. Considering the shit they have gone through and is still standing up with freaking fantastic support. Is saying something. Let alone bringing new things to the board.
As Mitt Romney once said, "corporations are people too, my friend". It's almost literally true. Free speech protects from government censorship and government compelled speech but in the private sector you're on your own.
Economic harm goes both ways though. Why does Google launch multiple efforts to comply with Chinese state censorship to break into their market? Because censorship costs companies $$$ too. They're (mostly) not complete idiots and once it starts costing them real money they'll drop it eventually. When all else fails though, China and Russia are always options, not that they're at all for free speech but they censor completely different stuff and the result may end up being that all those Chinese porn sites end up getting hoested in the states and all of the controversial opinion sites in the US gets hosted in China. Cultural exchange at its finest.
This is already illegal (Intel did it to AMD with PC makers and Apple to other phone makers) but hard to enforce. But that's not for free speech but monopoly abuse.
We don't use them for ddos protection. We use a local solution powered by Corero. It's onsite so we don't send our traffic over a GRE tunnel like companies who use CF magic Transit. We feel this is a better option since sending traffic offsite to get filtered does add latency. We also have there new equipment that does filtering up to 100Gbps.