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Spectrum
Score: 5/10TCP/UDP proxying magic, priced out of the use cases that need it most.
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Spectrum extends Cloudflare’s DDoS protection and anycast routing to arbitrary TCP and UDP services, including game servers, SSH, MQTT, and custom protocols. It is exactly the product game hosting has wanted.
The economics kill it. Per-GB pricing on high-throughput protocols is untenable: proxying real game server traffic through Spectrum costs more than the servers themselves. So the product that should be the answer for game hosting ends up reserved for low-bandwidth ports on Enterprise contracts (SSH and Minecraft on the lower plans, everything else negotiated).
The engineering earns five points, but I can rarely justify the price. With realistic pricing for sustained throughput, this would be a 9.