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Say more about this. One of the things we did early was decide that everyone hated their cell phone company because they charged on an unpredictable, metered ra
by eastdakota 8y ago
Say more about this. One of the things we did early was decide that everyone hated their cell phone company because they charged on an unpredictable, metered rate. So we made the rates flat. It's 8 years later. The world has changed. What would you rather have metered than flat/tiered fee?
- ksec 8y agoPersonal Opinion Only. It most has to do with freemium. Cloudflare started in the era where many were perfectly happy with "free" and had not much thought about it. Today many finally realise "You are the Product if you are not paying for it.", even if it was for upsell. But before this phase was coined or widely known, I was very wary of anything that is "free". And one reason why I was sceptics as well when Domain Registration are operated in similar fashion, I would much rather knowingly that Cloudflare made $1 - $2 per Domain per year than something being subsidise one way or another. It also give you choices, instead of going Business or Enterprise for Minimum cache expiry time, or other features. Customer gets to decide what they want. Pricing is crystal clear and there is no need to play guess games or contact sales. Especially when everyone today are now very accustom to AWS. I don't know how many are in the same bloat. But judging Business from other CDN competitor I guess there are few who prefer to be on metered plan. That is why I suggested a Sub Brand. Another Services offering using the same Network.