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Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by jgrahamc on Monday July 02, 2012 @08:25AM (#4188529)
CloudFlare does not bill customers for bandwidth consumed. It's a flat fee: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by mmaunder on Monday July 02, 2012 @08:35AM (#4188563)
Holy cupcakes. I might use this. So I can use your free package which includes the CDN to serve 100 Mbps of static JS and images?
Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by jgrahamc on Monday July 02, 2012 @08:40AM (#4188578)
Yes. And we'll also send you some cupcakes.
Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by mmaunder on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:18AM (#4188706)
I'm curious if I'm going to run into a catch. It seems unsustainable. Just to be clear, that's 30.8 Terrabytes of data I'll be transferring per month on your network for $0. Can someone verify this?
Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by jgrahamc on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:26AM (#4188745)
I'm not on the business side, but looking at our global traffic 30TB per month is a tiny percentage of what we are doing in terms of traffic.

I doubt it would go unnoticed, though, so I expect someone will be interested in persuading you to get a Business account with us which is $200/month because at that point we give you an SLA.

Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by rdl on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:27AM (#4188747)
If they go down, you go down. But in my experience they have been quite reliable; if you aren't already in 3 sites on independent networks for HA, they are better.

I'd spring for the $200/mo service if you are pushing real traffic just to get to try the railgun. $200 is less than epsilon for a large site.

Also, the cupcakes are probably a lie, or at least are vegan.

Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by Ralith on Monday July 02, 2012 @02:57PM (#4190321)
What do you have to say to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4188882 ?
Re:Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun by jgrahamc on Monday July 02, 2012 @03:08PM (#4190393)
I don't know who that is, or what site they had on CloudFlare and so I can't comment on it.