[khurs]

Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)

[chaz6]

I wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account.

[dizhn]

You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.

[thepasch]

something something are the product

[khurs]

Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down.

I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront.

It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal.

[trick-or-treat]

Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.

[rozenmd]

Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/

[bcye]

Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (: