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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h (robindev.substack.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Always call out Cloudflare for their bullshit. For those working for companies in devops, share this with your teams...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

To use a service tier that they've clearly exceeded for quite some time and then act surprised when they're asked to upgrade. Then to make matters worse they try to play hard ball by mentioning that they're already talking to other providers. I'm sure the casino this is all for is way more lenient and let's it's customers play games or make bets they haven't paid for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

try to play hard ball by mentioning that they’re already talking to other providers

It's not "playing hard ball" to mention that you are look at other options. Jesus. As the author said, of course they would be. Wouldn't you if you were facing a 40x price increase?

To use a service tier that they’ve clearly exceeded for quite some time and then act surprised when they’re asked to upgrade.

We must have read totally different posts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Now admittedly, $250 is probably fairly low for the amount of traffic we were pushing through Cloudflare. We mainly use CF for the CDN (caching all our static content) and DDOS protection, for which it works pretty well. It’s easy to use and you don’t usually have to think about it much.

Nope. Same article. You're crazy if you think you can average 7mil visitors a month and stick to the $250/mo plan. It blows my mind that a casino of all things is mad about that and we've got people like you so desperate to shit on cloudflare that you can't see how ridiculous that is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't the "Business" plan advertised as "unlimited"? Also the problem was a totally different one. They were pressured into upgrading to the "Enterprise" plan without being given any reason. I would be on CF's side if they just said: "With your current plan you are violating TOS. Here's what you did wrong: Lists ToS violations The features you need in order to fix this are only included in the Enterprise plan, so please upgrade or we have to terminate your services, we give you 1 week"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I misunderstood before and I agree.

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