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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by amrocha on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:26PM (#37909157)
Hosting costs money and you're getting that for free, so there's something else going on there.

You're paying for PayPal on their margin.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by dharmab on Monday October 16, 2023 @10:37PM (#37909834)
> so there's something else going on there

Cloudflare free tier as a CDN. They're on the record about why they do it- mainly, it generates large sales leads, makes it easier to hire, and provides them a community of willing QA testers for new features.

Hosting costs for a small website are literally pennies a month if your content can be cached. Plenty of truly free origin hosts available. GitHub Pages is a popular ine.

> You're paying for PayPal on their margin

So? Bandcamp charges 15% for small artists.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by amrocha on Monday October 16, 2023 @11:02PM (#37910048)
Right, so Cloudflare makes their money one way or another. If at some point they decide it's not worth it to host free content anymore then you're out of luck.

That's what I mean, there is a cost of doing business and someone has to pay it. It sounds like Bandcamp was a shitty partner too, but the larger point still stands I think.

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