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Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)

by khurs 4mo ago

thepasch 4mo ago
something something are the product
- rozenmd 4mo ago
  Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/
  - bcye 4mo ago
    Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (:
- khurs 4mo ago
  Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down. I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront. It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal.
  - trick-or-treat 4mo ago
    Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.
  - Barbing 4mo ago
    CloudFlare uses that Slack Hack Club model?
  - Chu4eeno 4mo ago
    Cloudflare's business model was to protect DDoS "providers"/booters for free, so DDoS became something everyone had to worry about (before cloudflare they tended to DDoS eachother), and then sell the cure. Krebs wrote some rather scathing posts about them when they were starting up.
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chaz6 4mo ago
I wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account.
- dizhn 4mo ago
  You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.
  - chaz6 3mo ago
    You are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.
    - dizhn 3mo ago
      I just saw this. You're right I thought you were just concerned about giving control of your domain to cloudflare.

Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)

by khurs 4mo ago

Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)

thepasch 4mo ago

something something are the product

rozenmd 4mo ago
Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/
- bcye 4mo ago
  Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (:
khurs 4mo ago
Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down. I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront. It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal.
- trick-or-treat 4mo ago
  Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.
- Barbing 4mo ago
  CloudFlare uses that Slack Hack Club model?
- Chu4eeno 4mo ago
  Cloudflare's business model was to protect DDoS "providers"/booters for free, so DDoS became something everyone had to worry about (before cloudflare they tended to DDoS eachother), and then sell the cure. Krebs wrote some rather scathing posts about them when they were starting up.

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chaz6 4mo ago

I wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account.

dizhn 4mo ago
You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.
- chaz6 3mo ago
  You are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.
  - dizhn 3mo ago
    I just saw this. You're right I thought you were just concerned about giving control of your domain to cloudflare.