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Cloudflare does not host your website for free, a paid customer is paying more on its plan to subsidize your website.
by akagusu 5y ago
Cloudflare does not host your website for free, a paid customer is paying more on its plan to subsidize your website.
- cf_is_nsa 5y agoOr maybe it's the taxpayer.
- SimeVidas 5y agoI obviously meant “free” as in “I pay nothing.”
- montroser 5y agoThey obviously knew what you meant, but their point is still worthy of consideration.
- simonh 5y agoThat’s arguable. If the free plans help cloudflare grow its brand and customer base and is an effective marketing tool, then it’s helping cloudflare become more profitable. That might make cloudflare a more scalable and efficient business, driving down its costs per customer and enabling lower prices from scale efficiencies. This is a well known economic effect. I can’t demonstrate it’s the case with cloudflare but it’s quite possible and even likely. Even if it’s not actually driving lower prices, customers can benefit if their service provider is more economically healthy.