A user running an online casino claimed that Cloudflare abruptly terminated their service after they refused to upgrade to a $10,000/month enterprise plan. The user alleged that Cloudflare failed to communicate the reasons clearly and deleted their account without warning.
Quote: "Cloudflare wanted them to use the BYOIP features of the enterprise plan, and did not want them on Cloudflare's IPs. The solution was to aggressively sell the Enterprise plan, and in a stunning failure of corporate communication, not tell the customer what the problem was at all."
Summary: A user shared their experience of being forced to upgrade to a $3,000/month plan after using 200-300TB of bandwidth on Cloudflare's business plan. They criticized Cloudflare's lack of transparency regarding bandwidth limits and aggressive sales tactics.
Quote: "A lot of this stuff wasn't communicated when we signed up for the business plan. There was no mention of limits, nor any contracts nor fineprint."
Summary: A user expressed frustration with Cloudflare's bot protection challenges, which made it difficult for them to unsubscribe from emails or access websites. They highlighted how these challenges disproportionately affect privacy-conscious users with non-standard browser configurations.
Quote: "The 'unsubscribe' button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge. That's a CAN-SPAM act violation."
If you don't need them, they'll make you think you need them (so they can monitor your needs) and when you do need them, they will extort you any way they can.
The vast majority of websites don't need Cloudflare, very often people do because they run things in a very terrible way. Instead of paying Cloudflare extortion feed, pay competent people for proper infrastructure development.
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Until they threaten you to pay a huge bill or they will shutdown your services. No thanks. Cloudflare has extremely questionable business practices.
Cloudflare took down our website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808
A user running an online casino claimed that Cloudflare abruptly terminated their service after they refused to upgrade to a $10,000/month enterprise plan. The user alleged that Cloudflare failed to communicate the reasons clearly and deleted their account without warning.
Quote: "Cloudflare wanted them to use the BYOIP features of the enterprise plan, and did not want them on Cloudflare's IPs. The solution was to aggressively sell the Enterprise plan, and in a stunning failure of corporate communication, not tell the customer what the problem was at all."
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Tell HN: Don't Use Cloudflare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336515
Summary: A user shared their experience of being forced to upgrade to a $3,000/month plan after using 200-300TB of bandwidth on Cloudflare's business plan. They criticized Cloudflare's lack of transparency regarding bandwidth limits and aggressive sales tactics.
Quote: "A lot of this stuff wasn't communicated when we signed up for the business plan. There was no mention of limits, nor any contracts nor fineprint."
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Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577076
Summary: A user expressed frustration with Cloudflare's bot protection challenges, which made it difficult for them to unsubscribe from emails or access websites. They highlighted how these challenges disproportionately affect privacy-conscious users with non-standard browser configurations.
Quote: "The 'unsubscribe' button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge. That's a CAN-SPAM act violation."
It's modern racketeering.
If you don't need them, they'll make you think you need them (so they can monitor your needs) and when you do need them, they will extort you any way they can.
The vast majority of websites don't need Cloudflare, very often people do because they run things in a very terrible way. Instead of paying Cloudflare extortion feed, pay competent people for proper infrastructure development.