own DNS server or third party providers

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• damoncloudflare Member

  September 2014

  @rm_ said:
  So instead, if you'd distribute your DNS across even 3 providers (not to mention 4-5), which are independently owned and located on different continents, it's pretty much impossible for all of them to go down at the same time.

  The issue you're posting about CloudFlare is pretty old at this point. We haven't really had any system wide issues for quite some time. Having been here since CloudFlare launched, we have had 3-4 issues over a four-year period of time that was a wide issue.
• Dylan Member

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  rm_ said: [Matthew] Prince thought about CloudFlare’s paying customers as well and the company will act accordingly to make up for the outage: “We are extremely disappointed and we’ll definitely be honoring our paying customers.”

  Note how he doesn't even pretend to care about the non-paying ones.

  You're being silly. Paying customers a) are paying and b) have an SLA, so of course they'll be reimbursed for an outage. Free customers don't have an SLA and haven't paid money -- so there's nothing to reimburse in the first place. Do you really expect them to give money to free customers? They're already giving out a (rather good, I can attest to what Damon said above) service that you can only otherwise get by paying (quite a lot, in many cases).