Re:CloudFlare, We Have a Problem
by api on Saturday July 16, 2016 @12:37PM
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That can be said of lots of stuff. Developers can be marketed to just like anyone else, and cargo culting is very common.
"You don't use CloudFlare? Are you enterprise?"
Amazon is also adept at this. Many of their database and storage services are great but EC2 is overpriced and they overcharge for bandwidth. I see loads of people who only use them for compute and who would be much better served by Digital Ocean or Vultr. But you're not a serious deployment if you don't over-provision on Amazon... and then put the whole thing behind CloudFlare.
Go to a dev or IT conference and you can see this marketing in full force. The style of it reminds me a lot of performance automotive marketing that you would see around a Nascar event.
"You don't use CloudFlare? Are you enterprise?"
Amazon is also adept at this. Many of their database and storage services are great but EC2 is overpriced and they overcharge for bandwidth. I see loads of people who only use them for compute and who would be much better served by Digital Ocean or Vultr. But you're not a serious deployment if you don't over-provision on Amazon... and then put the whole thing behind CloudFlare.
Go to a dev or IT conference and you can see this marketing in full force. The style of it reminds me a lot of performance automotive marketing that you would see around a Nascar event.