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This article is littered with inaccurate comparisons. Getting to 400M uniques for them is completely different than facebook or twitter. It should be better com
by brianbreslin 15y ago
This article is littered with inaccurate comparisons. Getting to 400M uniques for them is completely different than facebook or twitter. It should be better compared to how long did it take google analytics to hit 400M uniques.
I do like the idea of what they are doing, the DDOS protection alone makes their service worth at least $100/Month to most revenue generating sites. If they are signing up 30k new customers per month, and 1% pay $20/month, then you're talking about growing by $6k/revenue or more a month. compounding that adds up. I'd be surprised if they didn't break $1-2M in revenue in 2012. (pure speculation, no insider info. I do use their plugin on my blog)
- eli 15y agoAgreed. Think about how easy it would be for people to ditch Cloudflare for a competitor versus, say, Twitter. Very few of those 400M even know they're using the service.
- larrys 15y ago"Getting to 400M uniques" It's not even 400m uniques unless you consider delivery of a cached page a unique where the end viewer of the page doesn't even know he is served by cloudflare. Other than hijacking the 404 pages (which would be a percentage of the uniques) there isn't any value that I can think of to that. It's like serving up dns queries in a way.
- brianbreslin 15y agoI was thinking exactly the same thing. The value is compared to the commercial DDOS protection services that many of these hosts offer like liquid web http://www.liquidweb.com/services/ddos.html http://www.liquidweb.com/services/ddos.html ($$$)
- ktothemc 15y agoUm. Read the WHOLE story. I point out that their comparisons are flawed.