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by wrxd 162 days ago
What market share would they have without offering the free tier? Much lower than what they have now, and that would make for a more decentralised and resilient internet
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Do you remember how bad things were before CloudFlare? You’d get attacked constantly if you ran a large website.
I remember Tor being significantly more usable, and not having random 3 second delays on websites.
> and that would make for a more decentralised and resilient internet

The only people that say that haven't run a site on the open internet in the last decade plus. It's such an ignorant takes it's hard to take anything you say seriously.

I’m not advocating for having no protections at all. Without Cloudflare giving away protection for free it’s entirely possible that we would have multiple smaller provider offering protection at a fair price so maybe only a smaller fraction of the internet goes offline next time Cloudflare pushes a bad configuration
fair price and europe sounds interesting... regardless it still means your competition will have it easier