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The thing that draws me to Cloudflare over AWS is AWS bandwidth charges. CF charge $20/mo for a basic business plan; fronting our domain with CF reduced our AWS
by danielheath 6y ago
The thing that draws me to Cloudflare over AWS is AWS bandwidth charges. CF charge $20/mo for a basic business plan; fronting our domain with CF reduced our AWS egress bill by over $2500/mo.
- mike_d 6y agoCloudflare is the "unlimited storage" of the CDN world. They are giving away investors money today with the hopes that down the road they can... something something. In 3-8 years activist investors are going to realize that Cloudflare is the man-in-the-middle data collection point for a percentage of the internet and that a merger with $adnetwork would produce a money printing machine. A handful of "good guys" in engineering and management will be powerless to stop it when the time comes.
- danielheath 6y agoThey’re cheap because they have to buy tons of ingress for their ddos protection product, and bandwidth is sold symmetrically at those volumes, so the egress is functionally free to them.
- mike_d 6y agoHere is another way to think about it: reset the Cloudflare bank account balances to $0 at the beginning of the month. They provide services and collect payments from customers. At the end of the month when bills come due, all the hand waving and "functionally free" in the world doesn't change the fact they spent more than they made.