Cloudflare took down our site after trying to force us to pay $120k within 24h

Re:Cloudflare took down our site after trying to force us to... by dang on Sunday May 26, 2024 @06:47PM (#40486098)

Those are variations of the same thing from an HN systems point of view. The problem is that there are way too many of these stories to be interesting and/or to all be on HN's front page, but they tend to attract upvotes anyway.

As I said above, we're happy to make exceptions for the occasional thread that is genuinely of interest, but sometimes the process for idenitfying those is "apply standard penalties -> generate howls of protest -> eventually find out about community pushback (e.g. in this case someone emailed [email protected]) -> restore post".

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Re:Cloudflare took down our site after trying to force us to... by vertis on Monday May 27, 2024 @11:28AM (#40491652)

While I understand where you're coming from. Appreciate the immense amount of work you do. HN is pretty much the only way I'll see a post like this, and I like to keep track of behaviours like this. I use cloudflare for a lot of things, but it's a deal breaker not giving time to migrate off and causing downtime.

I understand all the complexities here. Have worked closely with a Trust and Safety team before (real estate portal). But if that business was good enough to exist on the CF network for X years, it should be given time to move if it's no longer an agreeable business partner, that makes it a worthy story.

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