Re:Servers for an Accelerated Future
by tssva on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:39PM
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"I can't imagine price would be major factor for a company of Cloudflare's size, but it's definitely true that the 48-core part is much cheaper."
I have worked at companies with 5 employees struggling day to day to keep afloat, highly profitable companies with employee counts in the 6 figures and multiple billions in revenue and just about everything in between. I have never worked at one where cost was not a major factor.
In Cloudflare's case revenues for 2019 were $287 million and they had a net loss of $105.8 million. They are competing with a market leader, Akamai, whose revenues for 2019 were 10 times theirs and had a profit of a few hundred million dollars, so I don't suspect Cloudflare is the exception to the rule of cost being a major factor.
I have worked at companies with 5 employees struggling day to day to keep afloat, highly profitable companies with employee counts in the 6 figures and multiple billions in revenue and just about everything in between. I have never worked at one where cost was not a major factor.
In Cloudflare's case revenues for 2019 were $287 million and they had a net loss of $105.8 million. They are competing with a market leader, Akamai, whose revenues for 2019 were 10 times theirs and had a profit of a few hundred million dollars, so I don't suspect Cloudflare is the exception to the rule of cost being a major factor.