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I'm scared to use Cloudflare products, because yes they are cheap and good but the company is burning money, not profitable and has large amount of debt. They w

I'm scared to use Cloudflare products, because yes they are cheap and good but the company is burning money, not profitable and has large amount of debt. They wil have to raise those prices to not be cheap. Can you predict when and how much they will increase those prices? If you depend on them for everything and then they decide to make a big price increase to become profitable. Will you be able to handle that price increase? You are pretty much stuck with paying the price. Yeah other companies can increase their prices, but most of the time profitable companies in cloud infrastructure will only increase if their expenses increase and this is pretty predictable if you pay attention to costs. Like last year it was pretty easy to predict a price increase coming because of inflation and supply chain issues.

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awesomeMilou 4y ago
Imo, even if they tripled their pricing, they'd still be more cheap than any serverless product other cloud providers have to offer. Looking at their performance over the past 2 years, their losses are in no proportion to their revenue increase [0]. I'm nervous about them changing their pricing too, but just the fact that they're so much more transparent than AWS or GCE is a net plus for me, even with an increase in price. [0]https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nyse-net/cloudflare/news/while-shareholders-of-cloudflare-nysenet-are-in-the-black-ov https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nyse-net/cloudflare... (ignore the contents and forecast of the article and just look at the graph)
- r3trohack3r 4y ago
  I’ll second this. It’s also worth noting the development patterns they force when building on Workers and Pages sends you down the path of a fairly portable architecture. I can’t say anything I’m doing would be difficult to port to another provider on short notice.

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awesomeMilou 4y ago

Imo, even if they tripled their pricing, they'd still be more cheap than any serverless product other cloud providers have to offer. Looking at their performance over the past 2 years, their losses are in no proportion to their revenue increase [0]. I'm nervous about them changing their pricing too, but just the fact that they're so much more transparent than AWS or GCE is a net plus for me, even with an increase in price. [0]https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nyse-net/cloudflare/news/while-shareholders-of-cloudflare-nysenet-are-in-the-black-ov https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nyse-net/cloudflare... (ignore the contents and forecast of the article and just look at the graph)

r3trohack3r 4y ago
I’ll second this. It’s also worth noting the development patterns they force when building on Workers and Pages sends you down the path of a fairly portable architecture. I can’t say anything I’m doing would be difficult to port to another provider on short notice.