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How can CloudFlare afford to not charge for bandwidth at all? I figured the point of section 10 was to prevent abuse of that free bandwidth.
by mwcampbell 11y ago
How can CloudFlare afford to not charge for bandwidth at all? I figured the point of section 10 was to prevent abuse of that free bandwidth.
- buro9 11y agoThe clause is there to provide a tool to deal with some of the interesting things that people will try and use a CDN with no bandwidth charge for. i.e. what if whole movies were given a different content type and file extension, would CloudFlare suddenly be the world's largest CDN of pirated movies? Most such questions have been tried already, the clause allows us to answer "only for an exceptionally short amount of time".
- homero 11y agoI know! Because they pay for percentile, having high output makes their ddos input free
- buro9 11y agoThis is also true :) And we can negotiate better prices with more traffic, etc.