Comment by prvit
4 years ago
> I really liked the pretty clear and reasoned abuse policy[1]
Except it's neither. The way they try to brand their caching reverse proxy as only a "security service" instead of a "hosting service" is absurd and not based on any well reasoned logic.
How ? They aren't hosting the server and aren't hosting the backend itself.
So what if they aren’t hosting the backend? How do you even define “the backend”? Is it the PHP frontend code serving the site? Or the database server?
Cloudflare definitely was hosting the content through their CDN. That’s hosting, there’s really no reasonable debate to be had about this.
The point is the site can come back online through an alternate CDN vendor, assuming they can find one that wants their business. The origin server(s) presumably are still online. The origin servers "host the site."
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If I have a group telephone discussion about how great the Nazi party was, is AT&T hosting the nazi discussion?
And if they ban me and I decide to use smoke signals to have this discussion is the sky hosting it?