This kind of whining and the comments on the page piss me off greatly. A customer is a person who pays for a service. Someone who doesn't pay for a service (ye

This kind of whining and the comments on the page piss me off greatly. A customer is a person who pays for a service. Someone who doesn't pay for a service (yet) is a lead. Not all leads are good business. 100TB of traffic does not sound like a good lead to me, not even at the $200 level. Looking at the site, I see an IMGUR clone which was running for free off of CloudFlare's cache servers. I really don't understand the nonsensical comments on the article. WTF is wrong with people these days thinking that everything is supposed to be free? Are you all 16 and on an weekly allowance? Commenter Matt had a very valid point that some sort of optimization of the stored (cached) files would have been a smart option for yourselves (less local storage) as well as CF (less to cache, less bandwidth). I'd recommend http://www.jpegmini.com/server http://www.jpegmini.com/server (Oh wait, it's not free, now what... cry me a river) I have a question for the Phobos peeps. Were you making money? Seems to me like you were... since you can afford the LeaseWeb servers. Instead of bitching publicly, perhaps you should have reached out to the company when you noticed your traffic levels were reaching antisocial magnitudes. Grumpy Gramps (who used to pay UUNET $6k+ a month in 1997 dollars for the privilege of hosting a basic database-driven e-commerce site for a luxury watch brand on a guaranteed T1 connection)