This did not sound like an isolated incident at all. You don’t get sales responding to a legal/engineering issue by accident. It may have been unintended by leadership, if they put too much pressure on sales not realizing how it was corrupting the company, or the leadership may have tacitly approved of this. Hard to tell.
There seems to be a line, so far as I can tell. If everything you need sits on the free tier, they’re really good (well tbh their R2 storage is reasonably priced too). But once you stray into needing a paid tier, it apparently (I’m not there) quickly gets expensive as you’re lured into every higher tiers.
But yes, in general I don’t mind cloudflare so much and do use their free (and R2 paid) services.
They have not given me any reason to hate them which is a win in my books. Apple was my favourite but their policy of region specific features is getting annoying.
If I had to choose my favourite corporation, it would be Cloudflare. They at least do something good.
You may want to read: https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website
I still think they are good. Isolated incidents like this are going to happen when you are doing business at such scales.
This did not sound like an isolated incident at all. You don’t get sales responding to a legal/engineering issue by accident. It may have been unintended by leadership, if they put too much pressure on sales not realizing how it was corrupting the company, or the leadership may have tacitly approved of this. Hard to tell.
Are there reports from others about similar things?
The article links to 4 incidents that are reported on Hackernews. So yes. At least 4
That is still isolated because they do at least a million times more business
There seems to be a line, so far as I can tell. If everything you need sits on the free tier, they’re really good (well tbh their R2 storage is reasonably priced too). But once you stray into needing a paid tier, it apparently (I’m not there) quickly gets expensive as you’re lured into every higher tiers.
But yes, in general I don’t mind cloudflare so much and do use their free (and R2 paid) services.
It would be fine if it was just “lured”, but this made me very sceptical of cloudflare: https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website
They have not given me any reason to hate them which is a win in my books. Apple was my favourite but their policy of region specific features is getting annoying.