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Is the issue with free services in general? Does any other vendor (AWS, Fastly or Akamai) offer a decent free service? It does seem to be more Marketing if you
by mathattack 6y ago
Is the issue with free services in general? Does any other vendor (AWS, Fastly or Akamai) offer a decent free service?
It does seem to be more Marketing if you want to lock in customers before they get too big to switch.
- syshum 6y agoFree Services like this are offered for 3 reasons 1. Marketing... 2. Data collection (after all if you are not paying you are the product) There is monetary value in collection, observation, and tracking of a vast amount of internet traffic. 3. Education. If you get people just starting out in their careers using your product or service for they hobby, personal project, etc then when they have a business need for some like your product or service they will just naturally choose you. Adobe and MS has been doing this for decades with low or no cost education licensing