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Wow, that's terrible. Thank you for the heads up. Just transferred my domains back to namecheap. While we're all here venting about Cloudflare, is anyone else

Wow, that's terrible. Thank you for the heads up. Just transferred my domains back to namecheap. While we're all here venting about Cloudflare, is anyone else frustrated about how they lure you in to their CDN product with "free" bandwidth, but then lock behind so many useful features arbitrarily behind what I can only imagine is a thousands of dollars per month enterprise plan? Just look at their cache-purging page for an example of this, everything other than basic purge by URL is enterprise only: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/how-to/purge-cache/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/how-to/purge-cache/ These days Cloudflare is literally my last choice for a CDN for my new projects, and I try to warn against others considering using it. My new go-to is bunny.net, who charges a reasonable usage-based fee for bandwidth and gives you unfettered access to all the features they've built. Though I'd even reach for Cloudfront with their expensive bandwidth costs these days, because at least their pricing is transparent and scales smoothly with usage, and they don't arbitrarily cut you off from useful features. Even their bandwidth might not really be "free", since I've heard if you actually use any significant amount, the sales people will come knocking on your door to coerce you to get on the same enterprise plan or have your site taken down.

slig 4y ago
Have you seen this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
- eins1234 4y ago
  Nope, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Though not sure who to trust at this point haha... Anyone have other recommendations for where I should keep my domains?
  - fotta 4y ago
    I picked Porkbun from other threads on this topic. You can search "registrar" on hn.algolia to see yourself, but tbh I never really found a single _consensus_ opinion.
  - miloignis 4y ago
    Gandi.net has always lived up to their (literally) no-bullshit reputation for me, and I've pretty much only heard good things about them as a registrar.
    - codecutter 4y ago
      I used to have all my domains with Gandi.net One time, they had a billing issue with me. I disputed with my credit card company and got refund. So Gandi.net locked my entire account and none of the sites worked until I paid $10 they charged for disputing "their" billing issue. Only after paying $10 ransom, my account was restored. I promptly moved ALL the domains to porkbun. I also paid for 10 year renewal for my personal website, so someone from porkbun actually called me on the phone to confirm that it was not a mistake on my part and I truly intended to renew my personal website for 10 years. I have been happy with porkbun and would recommend them. Yes, humans at porkbun do manually reply to the emails and answer the phones.
      - account42 4y ago
        > I also paid for 10 year renewal for my personal website, so someone from porkbun actually called me on the phone to confirm that it was not a mistake on my part and I truly intended to renew my personal website for 10 years. That would annoy me - I should not have to bother with phone calls for something as sensible as making sure a domain I care about stays under my control for as long as possible. That is unless that was a vanity gTLD with particularly high renewal fees.

slig 4y ago

Have you seen this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581

eins1234 4y ago
Nope, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Though not sure who to trust at this point haha... Anyone have other recommendations for where I should keep my domains?
- fotta 4y ago
  I picked Porkbun from other threads on this topic. You can search "registrar" on hn.algolia to see yourself, but tbh I never really found a single _consensus_ opinion.
- miloignis 4y ago
  Gandi.net has always lived up to their (literally) no-bullshit reputation for me, and I've pretty much only heard good things about them as a registrar.
  - codecutter 4y ago
    I used to have all my domains with Gandi.net One time, they had a billing issue with me. I disputed with my credit card company and got refund. So Gandi.net locked my entire account and none of the sites worked until I paid $10 they charged for disputing "their" billing issue. Only after paying $10 ransom, my account was restored. I promptly moved ALL the domains to porkbun. I also paid for 10 year renewal for my personal website, so someone from porkbun actually called me on the phone to confirm that it was not a mistake on my part and I truly intended to renew my personal website for 10 years. I have been happy with porkbun and would recommend them. Yes, humans at porkbun do manually reply to the emails and answer the phones.
    - account42 4y ago
      > I also paid for 10 year renewal for my personal website, so someone from porkbun actually called me on the phone to confirm that it was not a mistake on my part and I truly intended to renew my personal website for 10 years. That would annoy me - I should not have to bother with phone calls for something as sensible as making sure a domain I care about stays under my control for as long as possible. That is unless that was a vanity gTLD with particularly high renewal fees.