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by furyofantares 1257 days ago
The gist is (to me) clearly that you're not meant to be effectively reselling cloudflare's own service. It's being sold (or given freely) under the assumption that it's largely used to build something else, not to build another CDN.

EDIT: There's questions downthread if I've misunderstood ImageBoss's role here. I think ImageBoss was also blocked by CloudFlare recently and separately and is not OP's website.

OP's website (imageboss) looks pretty rad, you can host images and have all sorts of derivative transformations that are done by imageboss and cached for you.

But it's functioning as a CDN (and boasts unlimited transformations, requests and bandwidth, which I think we all know is not actually possible.)

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I think you misunderstood the involvement of imageboss. From the post:

"We use Imageboss for all our image manipulation needs. During our migration out of cloudflare we had some difficulties with their service... small businesses like Imageboss were humane, professional and could really help us when we were in need"

OP didn't built imageboss or have any relationship with it until they were booted from Cloudflare and moved to it. They certainly didn't build it on top of Cloudflare.

Thanks for the correction. Looks like ImageBoss was also (separately) blocked which was confusing me.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/igorescobar_cloudflare-just-b...

No worries! After reading your comment I briefly questioned my understanding of the situation and had to re-read the post again to confirm it.

The post leans pretty heavily comes across as a reactionary rant - it could be much clearer on the entire situation.