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The guy you replied to is the CEO of cloudflare. If he says it's OK then I'm pretty sure it's OK!

by steve19 7y ago

eastdakota 7y ago
^—- what he said.
- InvaderFizz 7y ago
  In that case, thanks for the blessing. :)
  - zawerf 7y ago
    I am not saying not to trust the word of the CEO, but this exact use case of using cloudflare as a image hosting comes up a lot on HN. The word on the street is that they will start throttling and contacting you once you hit several hundred TB per month. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Of course this is still extremely generous and the upgrade plans are usually still several orders of magnitude cheaper than any cloud provider per gb. But don't build a business or hobby project around cf providing unlimited free bandwidth forever. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139191 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368684 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13580113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13580113 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826389 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5214480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5214480 [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829740 (basically search HN for cloudflare + non-html)
    - StavrosK 7y ago
      To be fair, I was expecting to be contacted for this unlimited service way way waaay before hundreds of TB per month.
homero 7y ago
He might be the CEO but things change after an IPO. I hope Cloudflare stays great. I love their service.
- benologist 7y ago
  Not only do things change but CF has hundreds of employees that weren't CC'd on that informal permission so there's still a high chance of being inconvenienced, and there's a decent chance the CEO won't be at your disposable should a problem occur. Should CloudFlare later ban you for the practice, will the random support person you reach unpack the CEO's comments here and ensure nothing changed internally that prevents allowing your continued use and advocate restoring your account for you?
  - hinkley 7y ago
    It’s not so different from when your company provides a perk that you expect not to see again. If the perk saves you money, you put that money in savings. Once your budget expands to depend on that perk you are trapped, and when it goes away the pain will be noteworthy. In words that are more applicable to a business case: You have to have a strategy for when the Too Good To Be True situation ends, because it will, and you have less control over when than you think you do.

The guy you replied to is the CEO of cloudflare. If he says it's OK then I'm pretty sure it's OK!

eastdakota 7y ago

^—- what he said.

InvaderFizz 7y ago
In that case, thanks for the blessing. :)
- zawerf 7y ago
  I am not saying not to trust the word of the CEO, but this exact use case of using cloudflare as a image hosting comes up a lot on HN. The word on the street is that they will start throttling and contacting you once you hit several hundred TB per month. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Of course this is still extremely generous and the upgrade plans are usually still several orders of magnitude cheaper than any cloud provider per gb. But don't build a business or hobby project around cf providing unlimited free bandwidth forever. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139191 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368684 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13580113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13580113 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826389 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5214480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5214480 [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829740 (basically search HN for cloudflare + non-html)
  - StavrosK 7y ago
    To be fair, I was expecting to be contacted for this unlimited service way way waaay before hundreds of TB per month.

homero 7y ago

He might be the CEO but things change after an IPO. I hope Cloudflare stays great. I love their service.

benologist 7y ago
Not only do things change but CF has hundreds of employees that weren't CC'd on that informal permission so there's still a high chance of being inconvenienced, and there's a decent chance the CEO won't be at your disposable should a problem occur. Should CloudFlare later ban you for the practice, will the random support person you reach unpack the CEO's comments here and ensure nothing changed internally that prevents allowing your continued use and advocate restoring your account for you?
- hinkley 7y ago
  It’s not so different from when your company provides a perk that you expect not to see again. If the perk saves you money, you put that money in savings. Once your budget expands to depend on that perk you are trapped, and when it goes away the pain will be noteworthy. In words that are more applicable to a business case: You have to have a strategy for when the Too Good To Be True situation ends, because it will, and you have less control over when than you think you do.