Ok so I know a avg. Amount in general about cloudflare ... but does anyone think they can or will grow more paid users/businesses or just be bought...

Famous187 · September 13, 2019

Bought by Microsoft or Google or AWS.... my question is more how much potential is there out there for them to compete for $ market share or is it a losing Battle these days?... or could one of the others end up buying them out?... ipo going public today but most of my exp. With cloudflare is free tier and or their dns and other basic stuff... forgive my ignorance on this... but is cloudflare a Canadian company or is that something i "read" other than their roots in US and California and their servers and network infrastructure over the world etc... sorry not that it matters but if they have Canadian roots in some fashion I figure maybe the ltt family would have a different perspective or something .... thanks!

dalekphalm · September 13, 2019

59 minutes ago, Famous187 said:

Bought by Microsoft or Google or AWS.... my question is more how much potential is there out there for them to compete for $ market share or is it a losing Battle these days?... or could one of the others end up buying them out?... ipo going public today but most of my exp. With cloudflare is free tier and or their dns and other basic stuff... forgive my ignorance on this... but is cloudflare a Canadian company or is that something i "read" other than their roots in US and California and their servers and network infrastructure over the world etc... sorry not that it matters but if they have Canadian roots in some fashion I figure maybe the ltt family would have a different perspective or something .... thanks!

I'm a little confused as to what your actual question is.

Why would you think Cloudflare would be bought out by another company? Why would you think they need to be?

Also why did you think they have "Canadian roots"? Cloudflare is, and always has been, an American company.

Famous187 · September 14, 2019

On 9/13/2019 at 12:05 PM, dalekphalm said:

I'm a little confused as to what your actual question is.

Why would you think Cloudflare would be bought out by another company? Why would you think they need to be?

Also why did you think they have "Canadian roots"? Cloudflare is, and always has been, an American company.

Apologies....

You just debunked the Canadian thing for me... tbh I really dont know when or where I got that info... it wasn't a negitive thing in my mind or anything, and I really just wanted to confirm / deny it out of curiosity and thought of it while writing my question... so no disrespect or anything like that etc... hopefully it wasnt taken the wrong way or anything...

.... I was asking some Questions in concerns to a few different things I read from the "financial" news sites and sources most contradictory of each other of course and so on... 2 things stand out/were common "storylines" ... verbatim: they are bigger than people think or are giving them credit for and are/should be in the same basket as microsoft, google, aws etc... in terms of public traded tech companies go these days.... the other was if things dont work out cloudflare could easily be bought out by the bigger guys because they all use cloudflare to some degree or partner with them (amazon being a exception I think) and because cloudflare avgs 55billion daily attack blocks and could be considered or are considered web/network infrastructure and the their services because they are needed by everyone etc etc they couldnt fail and or the others or the market etc etc....

I'm a cloudflare fan but in terms of "household" names or if I asked 1000 people on the streets who or what cloudflare was or did I have a feeling most would say tech or cloud company if they weren't sure... or have no idea what they did even if they heard the name ... so would wallstreet do the same thing..? Etc etc

I'm asking these things out of curiosity that's all but I sorta wish I had money to invest in the ipo too

dalekphalm · September 15, 2019

18 hours ago, Famous187 said:

Apologies....

You just debunked the Canadian thing for me... tbh I really dont know when or where I got that info... it wasn't a negitive thing in my mind or anything, and I really just wanted to confirm / deny it out of curiosity and thought of it while writing my question... so no disrespect or anything like that etc... hopefully it wasnt taken the wrong way or anything...

The way you write your posts just make it difficult for people to read it and understand what you're talking about. Nothing about "being taken the wrong way" or being disrespectful.

18 hours ago, Famous187 said:

.... I was asking some Questions in concerns to a few different things I read from the "financial" news sites

This is information that should have been contained in the opening post.

What news sites? Care to link the articles?

18 hours ago, Famous187 said:

and sources most contradictory of each other of course and so on... 2 things stand out/were common "storylines" ...

18 hours ago, Famous187 said:

verbatim: they are bigger than people think or are giving them credit for and are/should be in the same basket as microsoft, google, aws etc... in terms of public traded tech companies go these days....

They are bigger than some people give them credit for. No, they should not be in the same basket as Microsoft, Google, or Amazon. If those three are "1st tier", CloudFlare would be a tier below them - still a very large company, but not that large. Especially since CloudFlare is far from the only company offering the type of services they do.

18 hours ago, Famous187 said:

the other was if things dont work out cloudflare could easily be bought out by the bigger guys because they all use cloudflare to some degree or partner with them (amazon being a exception I think) and because cloudflare avgs 55billion daily attack blocks and could be considered or are considered web/network infrastructure and the their services because they are needed by everyone etc etc they couldnt fail and or the others or the market etc etc....

CloudFlare could definitely be bought out by another company - any of the tier 1 tech companies could afford it. Though as far as I'm aware, there's no reason why CloudFlare would want to sell themselves at the moment.

They don't "all" use CloudFlare, btw. And CloudFlare could 100% fail and people using them would switch to an alternative. Granted, there might be a short term problem where the competitors need to increase their infrastructure, but it would work itself out pretty quickly. More than likely if CloudFlare started to go under, someone would buy their assets and infrastructure.

18 hours ago, Famous187 said:

I'm a cloudflare fan but in terms of "household" names or if I asked 1000 people on the streets who or what cloudflare was or did I have a feeling most would say tech or cloud company if they weren't sure... or have no idea what they did even if they heard the name ... so would wallstreet do the same thing..? Etc etc

Most tech companies aren't household names. If I ask 1000 random people what "Corsair" makes, they'll be like "who's that?" Or even ASUS or MSI, Gigabyte, etc. You might get the odd gamer that knows the company, most don't.

CloudFlare isn't a household name, because they don't need to be. Household people aren't their customers. The big players who would be interested in such a service know who CloudFlare is, and that's what matters.

18 hours ago, Famous187 said:

I'm asking these things out of curiosity that's all but I sorta wish I had money to invest in the ipo too

No worries - curiosity is a really good thing.

I'm going to give you some advice though: Make your posts clearer and more concise. Start by clearly laying out what your question is, in the opening post. Add more formatting, like separate paragraphs, etc, so that it's less of a wall of text to read. If you're asking a question based off of something you read online, link that thing, so that we can look at it and understand the context of your question. These are not criticisms, so much as advice to help you have a more positive forum experience.

Anyway, feel free to continue the discussion below if you wish.