Comment by r1ch
8 years ago
Google at least proxied everything over their own private fiber. Cloudflare proxies it over the public internet on a long route (since they terminate SSL as close to the client as possible).
8 years ago
Google at least proxied everything over their own private fiber. Cloudflare proxies it over the public internet on a long route (since they terminate SSL as close to the client as possible).
Private fiber in other people's datacenters. Better I suppose, but not much.
Unencrypted over private fiber and unencrypted over the public internet are worlds apart.
That has nothing to do with using fiber vs internet though.
EDIT: Original comment said he could pull content off Google results. To respond to the new one:
No, they're not worlds apart when you're on the backbone. They still go through other people's datacenters and that's what causes the problem - we're not talking about stuff that goes over wifi or corporate networks here - we're talking generally just big ISPs in both cases.