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by bosch_mind 666 days ago
Fastly is trash and nowhere near as good as CF.
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Beijinger 666 days ago
I think CF is trash, at least in the free version.

Why you should never use Cloudflare. It causes problems, is bad for SEO and a Spyware tool.

https://expatcircle.com/cms/why-you-should-never-use-cloudfl...

If it is free, then you are the product. If you need a CDN, there are cheap solutions out there. And Pics should always be delivered from your domain, not from CF.

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brookst 666 days ago
> If it is free, then you are the product

I use Linux and it’s free. Am I the product?

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Beijinger 666 days ago
Good point. But Linux is not a for-profit enterprise. Sex is free too. At least it is better when it is free.
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fragmede 666 days ago
For the buyer or the seller? The buyer has no incentive to make it good for the seller. The seller has every incentive to make it good for the buyer.

How much experience buying and selling it and getting it to free do you have to make that claim? Can you link to any peer reviewed studies?

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otherme123 665 days ago
CF doesn't use you as the product, a la Facebook, Instagram or Google. They try to lure you in with the free tier, and then upsell.

That's a bussiness model that you might like or not, but almost everyone is doing that one way or the other (first X months are free, free tiers, free Comunity Editions, etc.)

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pbowyer 665 days ago
Fastly's product is not trash.

Fastly's ability to sensibly price their product, market their product, and stop losing money hand over fist is trash.

And I write this as someone who has been snubbed by Fastly multiple times.

Squashed between Akamai and Cloudflare, I will be sorry to see them go.

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aetimmes 666 days ago
Care to explain why?
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