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Perhaps the vast, vast majority of their users receive very little traffic?
by kilovoltaire 12y ago
Perhaps the vast, vast majority of their users receive very little traffic?
- meowface 12y agoYes, that's true. I use Cloudflare on many of my sites, and they're basically ghost towns. However, to my understanding, Cloudflare never requires that a site with a certain amount of traffic must upgrade to a certain tier. I believe there are many sites with lots of traffic volume that are still on their free tier. There are no bandwidth limits or charges at any tier.
- jgrahamc 12y agoThat's right. CloudFlare doesn't have traffic limits. But if a site gets a lot of traffic it's likely a business, and businesses have additional requirements. So, the paid plans become attractive (e.g. getting the WAF protection, or better DDoS protection, or mobile optimization, or SSL) and so people upgrade.
- jackgavigan 12y agoIt would be interesting to see a chart/histogram showing the breakdown of number/percentage of CloudFlare-served sites vs how much data they serve. I'm guessing that there will be a handful of sites serving a LOT of data, and a LOT of sites serving very little data...