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We're building our startup infra on cloudflare over the other major hyperscalers and it turned out to be an amazing decision... Generous free tiers, pricing sc

We're building our startup infra on cloudflare over the other major hyperscalers and it turned out to be an amazing decision... Generous free tiers, pricing scales very competitively after that, and their interface is not nearly as bad as GCP / AWS. I highly recommend this stack.

Strongbad536 2y ago
you run compute workloads on there?
- jgrahamc 2y ago
  Yes: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/ Look at Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare Workers AI.
jgrahamc 2y ago
Cool. What are you building?
- IncreasePosts 2y ago
  srcbook.com (not OP, just trolling through their profile).
andrethegiant 2y ago
Same here!
tg180 2y ago
> their interface is not nearly as bad as GCP / AWS Underrated. Until recently, all the features were grouped in a very clear manner within the dashboard. Now, even Cloudflare is complicating its management interface, but they still have a long way to go before reaching the level of confusion of AWS and GCP.
- x0x0 2y ago
  Definitely. I managed to get R2 with their cdn in front of it up and working in under an hour. The same experience with s3 fronted by cloudfront was 2 very long days. Due to my misunderstanding, yes, but aws provided (1) incomprehensible docs, (2) an extremely complex UI; (3) stale help all over the internet; and (4) incredibly unclear error messages.
- Aeolun 2y ago
  Honestly, I feel like Cloudflares interface is quite complicated for the number of features they have. All their stuff seems to be only slightly integrated.
  - internetter 2y ago
    I appreciate the fact its just connected enough to work. AWS does what feels like everything in their power to entrench you. I avoid AWS as much as possible but one example that comes to mind is the fact you basically need to use SQS for SES
rc_kas 2y ago
I feel like my page ranking on Google is lower after switching to Cloudflare. Like google is secretly punishing Cloudflare hosted pages or something. I have zero evidence to prove anything. Just gut feeling. Anyone else notice this?
- internetter 2y ago
  Make sure you're not blocking googlebot, check in https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289
- celsoazevedo 2y ago
  It's hard to say because Google regularly releases updates that affect rankings. I've had sites that don't use CF dropping positions in Google Search even though nothing changed on my end. Why? No idea.

Strongbad536 2y ago

you run compute workloads on there?

jgrahamc 2y ago
Yes: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/ Look at Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare Workers AI.

jgrahamc 2y ago

Cool. What are you building?

IncreasePosts 2y ago
srcbook.com (not OP, just trolling through their profile).

andrethegiant 2y ago

Same here!

tg180 2y ago

> their interface is not nearly as bad as GCP / AWS Underrated. Until recently, all the features were grouped in a very clear manner within the dashboard. Now, even Cloudflare is complicating its management interface, but they still have a long way to go before reaching the level of confusion of AWS and GCP.

x0x0 2y ago
Definitely. I managed to get R2 with their cdn in front of it up and working in under an hour. The same experience with s3 fronted by cloudfront was 2 very long days. Due to my misunderstanding, yes, but aws provided (1) incomprehensible docs, (2) an extremely complex UI; (3) stale help all over the internet; and (4) incredibly unclear error messages.
Aeolun 2y ago
Honestly, I feel like Cloudflares interface is quite complicated for the number of features they have. All their stuff seems to be only slightly integrated.
- internetter 2y ago
  I appreciate the fact its just connected enough to work. AWS does what feels like everything in their power to entrench you. I avoid AWS as much as possible but one example that comes to mind is the fact you basically need to use SQS for SES

rc_kas 2y ago

I feel like my page ranking on Google is lower after switching to Cloudflare. Like google is secretly punishing Cloudflare hosted pages or something. I have zero evidence to prove anything. Just gut feeling. Anyone else notice this?

internetter 2y ago
Make sure you're not blocking googlebot, check in https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289
celsoazevedo 2y ago
It's hard to say because Google regularly releases updates that affect rankings. I've had sites that don't use CF dropping positions in Google Search even though nothing changed on my end. Why? No idea.