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So that they can pay 100x more expenses for.. no gain? They would pay an arm just for traffic.
by stefan_ 10mo ago
So that they can pay 100x more expenses for.. no gain? They would pay an arm just for traffic.
- arcfour 10mo agoCloudFlare is free/cheap and hey presto, no servers to manage!
- encrypted_bird 10mo agoCounterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare.
- arcfour 10mo agoThat is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone".
- encrypted_bird 10mo agoI guess that is the beauty of opinions: they can be different from person to person. In my case, I would rather avoid CloudFlare if possible.
- herewulf 10mo agoAnd when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside!
- arcfour 10mo agoThat's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement.
- kevin_thibedeau 10mo agoIt's OpEx. MBAs will pour unlimited money into OpEx to avoid CapEx.
- somehnguy 10mo agoClearly I don't have an MBA because this mindset doesn't make sense to me. Burning money unnecessarily is burning money unnecessarily, no matter where it's burned.