[ajross]

The point is more that the author is an unreliable narrator and you need to apply a little salt to the rest of the story. Cloudflare absolutely shouldn't be taking bribes to permit regulatory evasion. But if they are, I want more evidence than a substack post.

[nicce]

It was the opposite? To comply with regulation.

[Tao3300]

and...

> if a country DNS-blocks our main domain, a secondary domain may still be available

[Dylan16807]

Do you have a suggestion to make that not possible? It doesn't seem fair to punish them so aggressively because that might happen. The "may" there isn't a statement of intent.

[ksec]

It also seems strange they dont know their Traffic Numbers.

>Note that 80TB is the number they tried to sell us, I don’t know if it is accurate since they removed all our access to historical analytics.

I mean you dont need accurate Data but surely most would know by heart their traffic in rough figures? Or am I the old dog where every new Web Dev are so used to Cloud and Serverless they have no idea what they are using?

[nolverostae]

Over 90% of our traffic is cached, since it is static assets. I can look up how much traffic reaches our origin, but the main factor is the number of static files hit. We used Cloudflare Analytics (part of the business plan) to track this, and since it didn't really impact our tech much until now I don't have an exact overview. I mainly know which (uncached) endpoints are hit how much. Fastly is currently saying 15TB per week which seems roughly the same range as Cloudflare's 80TB / month number.

[silverquiet]

People seem to have a very laissez faire take on egress which I’ve never understood given the really impressive markups the cloud providers charge on it. But yeah, it seems like the attitude is that as long as you’re using “cloud-native” services (AKA locked-in proprietary offerings) then cost is low and doesn’t matter anyway because it’s opex, not capex.

I spend a lot of time wondering if the Emperor is wearing any clothes.

[viraptor]

Depends on your scale. I would probably know the traffic for the project I looked at last, but the whole account? No way. Half of it I've never touched and would have to talk to different teams. I'd only look at that when discussing the contract again. Or if their TAM flags us crossing some threshold.

It would be completely different for a small project of course, but once you're counting in TBs... it's less important.

[CydeWeys]

Eh, your traffic is a total cost you pay per month. That's how I would look at it. The one figure I know best of all is annual revenue, and how our annual revenue this year is on track to do compared to last year's.

As far as exact volume of QPS or TB/month or whatever, I really couldn't say.

[throwaway211]

And here I am with a dashboard of anything taking more than 20ms and working knowledge of sales tax in 200 places around the world.

[Pengtuzi]

Very impressive

[throwaway211]

I didn't aspire to a 211 for nothing :/