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You can imagine that the conversation went something like: “Hey, look at Cloudflare, should we reduce egress costs?” “Absolutely not, but let’s make a free ti
by oconnore 5y ago
You can imagine that the conversation went something like:
“Hey, look at Cloudflare, should we reduce egress costs?”
“Absolutely not, but let’s make a free tier change and hope that fewer people hassle us about that”
It’s a signal that they’re digging in on the price structure.
- staticassertion 5y agoAgreed. They likely see Cloudflare as targeting customers with lower requirements than AWS customers, and so to compete with them they can just extend their free tier while assuming that as companies grow they'll exceed that tier. For high volume customers this isn't going to make a huge difference. For many who were considering Cloudflare, it could mean their service is now free.
- missedthecue 5y agoIt's vendor lock in. "Hey should we build our company on cloudflare? Their egress cost is cheaper" "No, AWS has far more features and besides, we get enough bandwidth for free because we're a small startup" Fast forward 5 years, your company has grown and is buying a 10 terabytes a month of egress, but you can't switch platforms now, you're too far dug in and integrated with AWS.
- 999900000999 5y agoBy then you ether sold the company or your doing enough in revenue this is insignificant. Let's be clear, you can build a functional startup on AWS free of charge assuming you at least have a valid credit card. The .01% who eventually become enterprise clients aren't going to complain.
- rstupek 5y agoSo $800 a month would break the bank? I'm with you on wanting egress fees to be lower but 10TB isn't that much traffic
- missedthecue 5y agoNo but it's just an example. Say it's a petabyte monthly, whatever.
- philliphaydon 5y agoIf I’m 5 years in and doing 10TB and can’t afford it I would be very worried.