Knock on wood, I have not used them in quite a while.
Typical of Google to shut down yet another service
Good. The less Google does the better the internet will be.
Are CloudFlare, Amazon or Microsoft any better? Google at least take security (if not privacy) very seriously.
In general it seems bad to have any huge profit-driven organisation exercising significant control over open standards, but I do think that Google is lesser than many of the other evils.
It’s all big tech. I try to pick smaller companies myself.
It’s only a matter of time before cloudflare becomes arrogant enough to be user hostile also.
I am really thinking of switching to Microsoft for all my cloud needs, including email, photos and cloud storage and online office webapps.
I can’t trust that company no more.
That’s like switching from cholera to plague.
Start easily, subscribe to these communities:
Oh I know all about Foss. I was a Foss evangelist in university.
But some things you can’t quite replace.
Curious what that would be… I use neither Google nor Microsoft for personal use and I have an msdn, lol.
Ahh crap.
What’s the best no nonsense alternative?
Cloudflare is just that. It supports most domains except for premium .dev (for now) from google. Registrar costs are at cost and no markup. Lots of options, no pressure to do anything beyond free.
Next option is Namecheap, but they’ve had issues lately.
except for premium .dev
WHYY ;-;
No idea. I moved my personal .dev over and that was fine. But I pay for a premium .dev domain and can’t move that yet. No explanation from Cloudflare.
What’s the problem with Namecheap? I’ve been with them since GoDaddy got on the shit list, but I’m not against moving again.
Honestly, nothing. But they’ve been having more network and dns issues, which caused resolution issues. So I’m moving away entirely.
