alt Hacker NewsCloudflare'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.
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trick-or-treat • today at 10:50 AM
Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.
Barbing • today at 2:57 PM
CloudFlare uses that Slack Hack Club model?
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.