# How Cloudflare Became Too Important to Fail

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Podcast: [Tech Stories Tech Brief By HackerNoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-stories-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365648)
Published: 2026-06-13T16:00:31+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/833abc8e
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## Resource

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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