Is this why cloudflare manages to be cheap?
Cloudflare took down our website
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#12Using this as a blatant example of why digital anarchism is needed nowadays
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#13Is this why cloudflare manages to be cheap?
They manage to be cheap because it's massively multitenant infra
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#14has this happened to any businesses that were not questionably legal?
There are links in the article, for example:
"Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212
Also:
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#15Racketeering is easier and more profitable than actual services. Shocking how often "gatekeepers" fall to the temptation.
Speaking of racketeering, it's an enlightening experience to search for "stresser" or "booter" providers (euphemisms for DDoS-as-a-Service) and look up their NS records to see who helping them ward off competitors DDoS attacks and keep their origin servers hidden. 9 times out of 10 it's Cloudflare, with the few exceptions being DDoS-Guard, who more or less specialize in facilitating crime.
See also early "anti" virus industry.
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#16Sounds like OP is a casino and plays domain games to avoid regulatory interest. Recommend reading article carefully before reacting to the headline. Hopefully Cloudflare provides a perspective.
How does paying $10k a month solve that?
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#17Sounds like OP is a casino and plays domain games to avoid regulatory interest. Recommend reading article carefully before reacting to the headline. Hopefully Cloudflare provides a perspective.
I mean, sure, they’re probably doing some sketchy regulatory dodging or whatever. Which part of this can Cloudflare solve by having them pay $120k/year to them?
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#18The Cloudflare CEO & co-founder is quite active on Twitter[0] and somewhat active on HN[1], would be interesting to get his perspective on this.
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#19Sounds like OP is a casino and plays domain games to avoid regulatory interest. Recommend reading article carefully before reacting to the headline. Hopefully Cloudflare provides a perspective.
Hmm. My take is the casino structured its business to comply, not to evade interest. Further, I don't see how Cloudflare benefits by taking on the risk to charge more to help a customer avoid scrutiny. More like: they know it's a humming business and want a piece.
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#20The recommendations to, basically, not keep all your eggs in one basket and have backups of config are surely good ideas. But if you have to plan on dropping cloudflare in some arbitrary 24 hour window, perhaps it’s CF that’s the problem. This sort of stuff and other recent articles about CF are so worrying that it’s now being run by the finance team (hence why every email they got in this article was from sales teams rather than any technical folks).
Also; if not registering domains on CF does anyone else do at-cost or otherwise super cheap pricing?