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There are lots of companies that provide low end services for free to attract people who may now or in the future be decision makers at large companies.
by smw 24d ago
There are lots of companies that provide low end services for free to attract people who may now or in the future be decision makers at large companies.
- stroebs 24d agoFor better or worse, the free plan that Cloudflare has provided me for 10 years for my 20-30 hobby/personal domains has gotten them several hundred thousand dollars in business.
- 8by3 24d agoindeed, typically by using their huge cash piles to build a moat around them, so no small new player has a dream of competing. This is why I refuse to give any money to AWS/GCP/Azure or anyone who runs on them.
- DarkUranium 24d agoI'm pretty sure that's impossible nowadays, at least avoiding everything that runs on AWS.
- mitxela 23d agoYou should avoid giving them money because they're 50 times more expensive than the competition, not because of that.