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cloudflare is definitely one of those companies that is in most people's blind spot. no one ever asks how a company that has astronomical operational costs is a
by gethly 1y ago
cloudflare is definitely one of those companies that is in most people's blind spot. no one ever asks how a company that has astronomical operational costs is able to thrive with free services which themselves break encryption of online communication...it's totally a tin foil hat time, but nobody cares as long as they get their free sh**
- OutOfHere 1y agoThey probably have a fat pipe straight to NSA's datacenter in Utah, with data flowing out and money flowing in.
- ahofmann 1y agoEither this, or the other big cloud providers have astronomical margins. One could look at the financial reports of this companies to find out...
- mcintyre1994 1y agoI suspect a lot of people ask that, because a while ago they wrote a blog post explaining why having a large free tier is important to their business model: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/