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by tech-dragon 4730 days ago
You have me wondering about the feasibility of offering this as a CloudFlare app.

If I was able to throw up a little ajax/client side JS driven app at a domain, throw CloudFlare over it (like I usually do for most smaller domains I own) and then have it all happen without even needing to change that .htaccess file, then your onto something even better.

I also think the pricing model may need some work. Per page seems like it could cut you off from some potential customers. For instance, I'm already thinking of a blog engine I wanted to try out more thoroughly by making it the one i use on my new blog but wasnt prepared to loose "google-ability". I Would like to be able to use a service like this but when I do my mental math it doesn't add up. I wanted to use a blog engine that will produce a large number of pages by pulling in third party service activity into my site. So its not 100% what I want, but damn its tempting.

If your pricing it to cover costs, might I suggest looking to optimize your stack to bring down those costs down?. If you can cut the price and make it more of a 'yeah for $X its easier than doing it myself' you'll get more takers. Right now it feels that your current lowest price per month is too high for a lot of devs to decide the $ is a throwaway expense to save them time. Id hazard, below $25, and probably with an order of magnitude more pages.

All that said... I may still try it out. It looks interesting.

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Thanks for your suggestion about CloudFlare. I am looking into it.