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by twunde 2053 days ago
It's more akin to making and then running a CDN but only charging 10% of customers. I'm sure Docker the company was writing it off as a marketing expense, but if they were running this in one of the public clouds that charge for egress, they were paying out a boatload of money just in egress charges (plus more in storage costs)
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making and then running a CDN but only charging 10% of customers

Like CloudFlare? Freemium can be a very successful business model.

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