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How on earth does Cloudfare survive charging $200 for nearly 2PB of traffic? Is the profiling/retargeting business really that lucrative? Do big accounts like t
by trotsky 14y ago
How on earth does Cloudfare survive charging $200 for nearly 2PB of traffic? Is the profiling/retargeting business really that lucrative? Do big accounts like that have some kind of revshare deal or mandatory link skimming?
- eli 14y agoWhere are you getting $200 from?
- trotsky 14y agoThat's what they charge afaik - $200/mo flat rate. https://www.cloudflare.com/business https://www.cloudflare.com/business
- eli 14y agoI would guess they are paying considerably more than that to host 4chan. Note there's also a $3k+ enterprise plan. From the article: We pay for CloudFlare too. While they offer free and $20 "Pro" plans for most of their customers, large businesses and enterprise customers are a different ballgame. It isn't cheap—far from it.
- danvideo 14y agoCloudflare offers a good value, but not having things like html caching is frustrating and one of the reasons we're not using them.
- druiid 14y agoTo be honest I don't personally think the traffic that some of the accounts running under the free/$20 plans are sustainable. I know for my part we've been running several very large sites through their service which cut our bandwidth usage approximately in half. That's the level of bandwidth that was costing about $3k+ all by itself per month. Doing the math, I think regardless of Cloudflare and their economies of scale, they will start having to charge more at some point for traffic. I know we'd pay it but I have to imagine for large traffic, but small income sites (which 4chan counts among them I think?) this could present an issue.
- eastdakota 14y agoYou underestimate the positive effect massive scale has in the bandwidth market.