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Do you guys think cloudflare will expand into the hosting market?
Now that cloudflare provides everything else aside from the traditional servers, do you guys think they are planning to enter this market or they will just stick to current serverless options.
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Idk. With GDPR banning fonts hosted on a CDN, Cloudflare sure as hell isn't allowed in Europe and won't expand there. In other regions, maybe
IF they were to do it, I doubt it'd be regular KVM slices where you choose pre-set plans. Likely something that more directly competes with AWS.
They already sell domains and obviously would have a giant leg up on marketing as they could simply reach out to the users and customers of their existing service(s) to let them know that they're now offering some form of hosting.
But, I hope they just keep doing what they're doing.
Maybe it's already started.
Most likely yes, they are already jumped into managing domains.
I believe they will never offer traditional server. They already offer some "server less" stuffs, they will improve them & make more flexible. It's already possible to make a full website around cloudflare offering but they lack on database side. Maybe they come up with some relational db offering?
Agreed, as @MannDude said, would be more like AWS or something similar. Chances of offering traditional hosting is slim.
no doubt, it's only a matter of time.
I recall the same question several years ago.
Seen tens of the same questions ever since.
Maybe containers and serverless DB with ACID features. Assuming Cloudflare deploys commodity hardware in the network edge, I believe it's only going to be possible in the Tier I DCs in the network.
Not sure this is 100% accurate
The issue was that the CDN was based outside of the EU - this means if cloudflare route all requests within the EU via EU hosted servers it should be fine, and EU businesses need to add that they use cloudflare to their privacy policy of course
When they announced Cloudflare R2, their S3 compatible storage, they mentioned they would like to become a cloud player and compete with AWS.
They teased in the past the concept of "Containers on the edge" whereby you can run Docker-based applications on their infrastructure, similar to competing app services from AWS, GCP, Azure.
I do not believe they will ever make bog standard VM hosting, but this managed app style is definitely something they are going for. Their latest goal is to make it possible to run your entire application on Cloudflare, and they are well on their way to accomplishing that for a lot of applications.
I'm pretty sure they are going to compete with GCP/AWS/Azure in the next few years at least for the most important services, and definitely compute instances etc.
Does that product exist yet? Announced 5 months ago and still not available as a regular product it seems.
It's in private beta right now, avaiilable to Enterprises that request it and need it.
According to a cryptic yet readable Tweet, its wider/open beta is planned for sometime in Q2 of this year and the general availabiliity is planned for sometime in H2 of this year.
I received a mail few days ago. Here it is.
F*ck AWS bro, over priced and treat customer like crap. Cloudflare all the way.
AWS doesn't make much money from small customers (individuals and small/micro businesses), they do treat them like crap. The way they treat large customers on Enterprise support plans and paying tens of thousands a month on egress charges alone is completely different.
Speaking of Cloudflare, I just replaced paid Ngrok with Cloudflare Tunnels. Love it. Saved another few bucks each month
Apparently R2 has been around for a while