4 ms·
> Fastly need to decide if they are a CDN or a internet company with a CDN product. They seem undecided what they are at the moment and have poor product struct
by pbowyer 5y ago
> Fastly need to decide if they are a CDN or a internet company with a CDN product. They seem undecided what they are at the moment and have poor product structuring and it's genuinely very hard to go put in your credit card and give them money! Cloudflare are quite clear they are a internet technology company now not a CDN and make it extremely easy for people to give them money in a few clicks.
I greatly respect Fastly and their technology, but they (and Varnish) are biased against small companies and make it impossible for me to sign up customers who would benefit from their services and one day might grow into big spending customers.
AWS has shown that the days of "min $5000/year" (as both these services have quoted me for individual products) can be over and you can be profitable. Companies who don't catch up with that are cutting off their future.
- paranoidrobot 5y ago> Companies who don't catch up with that are cutting off their future. I wish someone would smack Okta over the head with this and get them to figure that part out. Yes, they're expensive, but the per-use pricing was acceptable for what we wanted. I didn't realise there were (non-public) minimum spend amounts until we hit the end of our trial period and couldn't find any way to pay them other than to contact sales. Sales wouldn't take the order for just a handful of users.
- andrewnyr 5y agoOkta has an extremely generous free plan...
- pbowyer 5y agoWhere? All I can find is https://www.okta.com/uk/free-trial/ https://www.okta.com/uk/free-trial/ and https://www.okta.com/pricing/ https://www.okta.com/pricing/
- paranoidrobot 5y agoI didn't see anything about a free plan when we were doing this, and Sales only offered to extend our trial for another 30/60 days.