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How Cloudflare Became Too Important to Fail

June 13, 2026·25 min
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-cloudflare-became-too-important-to-fail. The Internet Walks on a Pegleg Named Cloudflare: It quietly guards a fifth of the web, but what happens the morning it trips? Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #internet-infrastructure, #web-infrastructure, #cloudflare-outage, #cybersecurity, #cloudflare, #reverse-proxy, #ddos-protection, #edge-computing, and more. This story was written by: @zbruceli. Learn more about this writer by checking @zbruceli's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The Internet Walks on a Pegleg Named Cloudflare: It quietly guards a fifth of the web, killed the CAPTCHA, declared war on Amazon's pricing, and is now building the plumbing for the entire AI age. So what happens the morning it trips?

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