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Re:Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms ... by hombre_fatal on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:11AM (#35962936)
> They're not actually giving away service that others charge thousands of dollars a month for, for free. If they were, most of those others would be out of business.

Well, It’s just that at a certain scale and business seriousness you will pay to guarantee certain levels of service which is why CF isn’t putting everything out of business. But CF’s “unguaranteed tier” is still high tier services for free.

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Re:Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms ... by yamtaddle on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:20AM (#35963049)
It's not just "guarantee levels of service", it's permission to sling lots of bits (and of any "type" you like) without being deliberately cut off. It's not like you're just paying for more 9s at other CDNs (or at CloudFlare).

Yes, the free tier is in fact pretty amazing if you have mid-traffic-or-lower site and are mostly serving HTML pages and basic images, js, and css for those pages, and the stakes for availability are pretty low. Which describes quite a bit of the Web.

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