People upgrade to get better service (including the missing features) not because of some artificial limit (like bandwidth). If you upgrade because you want to, not because you have to, you're likely a better customer.
Personally I don't think bandwidth is an artificial limit, or that it's unreasonable to require an upgrade after a certain cap. A site with 100,000 daily visitors will be able to afford at least the business tier.
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They never require anyone to upgrade.
People upgrade to get better service (including the missing features) not because of some artificial limit (like bandwidth). If you upgrade because you want to, not because you have to, you're likely a better customer.
Personally I don't think bandwidth is an artificial limit, or that it's unreasonable to require an upgrade after a certain cap. A site with 100,000 daily visitors will be able to afford at least the business tier.
Sure, but why treat a customer like a mobile phone customer who has to worry about what plan they are on to figure out how much they are spending?
It makes more sense to have flat pricing and to have feature that entice businesses to upgrade.
Wow. If I ever need a service like yours, you've got my business.
Just in case you were unaware, jgrahamc (aka John Graham Cumming) is the Platform Lead for CloudFlare.
Actually, John Roberts is Platform Lead. John Graham-Cumming's very modest title is "programmer":
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/programmer.html
I'm confused...
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201310/jeff-haden/why-there-are-...
There are no VPs, directors, etc. We tend toward functional titles: programmer, support, sales, member of technical staff.