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Cloudflare products and pricing (what I'm most familiar with) are in wild opposition to this view. I've never seen anything even remotely hinting at region or
by kkielhofner 3y ago
Cloudflare products and pricing (what I'm most familiar with) are in wild opposition to this view.
I've never seen anything even remotely hinting at region or geography in their product line other than geo-routing for load balancing products, headers with geo info for you to do something with, etc. They include the serving "POP" in headers for diagnostic purposes but other than that you have no idea.
Where do my Workers run? Don't know, don't care. They are substantially cheaper and offer better availability and response times than their region-based "cloud" competitors. Same for KV, D1, R2, and anything else they come up with as they move further and further in (out?).
One would expect with them having the ability to allocate supporting hardware dynamically and globally their cost basis is substantially better than having customer facing and controlled region-based resources that still need to be built out for product support (regardless of usage) AND maintain the excess capacity local to each region to be anywhere near "elastic".
- grog454 3y ago> Where do my Workers run? Don't know, don't care Glad that works for you but for my game servers edge computing is not ideal and generally currently not even applicable.
- SantaCruz11 3y agoWho do you use for game server edge computing? Edgegap?
- aeyes 3y agoCloudflare also depends on investor money, they haven't made a profit ever and continue to just throw stuff at the wall to grow. At some point in time they'll have to start thinking about profitability.
- short_sells_poo 3y agoIt's important to qualify this though. E.g. Amazon was not profitable for a very long time, but only because they furiously reinvested everything. They could've turned profitable at any time. Assuming Cloudflare is a similar case to Amazon: ie they could turn profitable at any time but choose to reinvest those profits immediately into more business, that is a very good spot to be in.
- applied_heat 3y agoBig assumption?
- jamwil 3y agoTheir financials are public.
- applied_heat 3y agoAh! No need to make any assumptions then.