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Re: Cloudflare S-1

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Post by therein »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #269
davchana wrote: post #236

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This. I have about 20+ hobbyish domains total, & 13 of them are with free Cloudflare Plan, & 3 of them are with their Domain Registrar side. I am completely fine with their free tier & paying for Domain Reg/Renewal. But just in case if in future i need to paygor DNS hosting, I would fallback to regular domain registar's free dns.

I had one website that I was working on, basically zero traffic, besides me testing it. After a couple of months Cloudflare kicked me off the free tier, asked for money. No idea why. I didn't use much of their resources, well within the limits.

That's quite peculiar. I never had that happen and I have over 10 domains with them that I'd describe as basically zero traffic.

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Post by jartelt »

TheKarateKid wrote: post #292
chocolatebunny wrote: post #267

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The purpose of an IPO is to raise money to do something. It doesn't make any sense to sell part of your company to a random set of people, just to pay them back over time. That's like me getting a mortgage for my house and after 30 years I pay back the mortgage and the bank still gets to own my house.

That’s what it’s original intent was, but an IPO is now a way for all the investors to earn a return on their private investment and cash out at any time moving forward. In all fairness, private investment was much lower when this was the case. Companies used to do an IPO much earlier when they needed funding instead of raising hundreds of millions in private investment money.

I believe the point is that you if you don't need to raise any money, you can do a direct listing instead of an IPO. Then you allow investor liquidity without selling equity.

Re: Cloudflare S-1

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Post by auslander »

gmanley wrote: post #289
auslander wrote: post #213

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> the entire internet behind a single entity You're giving CF too much credit. They are very small fish, as it seems from the S-1. But still dangerous because they MITM while operating for free at loss, so don't reuse passwords and logins between sites.

They handle about 10% of web requests according to this blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer If we trust that metric, it seems significant to me. Not what I would call small fish.

Small animals tend to puff to look bigger :) 10% of whole internet on a budget of 50-80M / year is hard to believe.

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Post by mooreds »

davchana wrote: post #236
the_duke wrote: post #14

The free tier of Cloudflare has been really amazing for small to medium websites. It gives you a basically unlimited CDN, SSL, HTTP/2, DDos protection and fast DNS servers with almost 0 effort... for free ... Thus increasing the stability and speed of many web properties that otherwise wouldn't pay for it. I'm afraid this could easily change once the company is public and is under the pressures that come along with i…

This. I have about 20+ hobbyish domains total, & 13 of them are with free Cloudflare Plan, & 3 of them are with their Domain Registrar side. I am completely fine with their free tier & paying for Domain Reg/Renewal. But just in case if in future i need to paygor DNS hosting, I would fallback to regular domain registar's free dns.

Domain reg/renewal, once you have the infrastructure, seems like it would be minting money.

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Post by jdorfman »

Circa 2011 I was doing support for MaxCDN and from time to time there were recurring issues with Cloudflare and our service being used together with a WordPress plugin. They ended up reaching out and we all got on a call not knowing what to expect. Long story short, call went great and we worked together on a solution that helped our shared customers. Cloudflare has made the CDN industry better. They've made huge contributions to the open source and webperf communities and I'm really happy for them.

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Post by ollerac »

JorgeGT wrote: post #280
SXX wrote: post #259

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Many ISPs around the world give you public IPs without NAT, but they're dynamic and change every once in a while.

Exactly my case! So I have a cronjob that compares the current IP with the previous one and, if different, sends an API request to update the DNS record.

Can you do a quick write up about how to do this? As a web developer, I feel like I should know how to host my own website from my own machine, but I've always struggled to get all the right steps in place. It'd be nice to hear from someone more experienced, so I can make sure to do it correctly!

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Post by yosefzeev »

So cloudflare basically fucks over 8chan over some skimpy mass shooting evidence, and now has a public offering as a corporate company? Get rid of free speech as internet police and sell stock and make millions?

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Post by greyskull »

yosefzeev wrote: post #307

So cloudflare basically fucks over 8chan over some skimpy mass shooting evidence, and now has a public offering as a corporate company? Get rid of free speech as internet police and sell stock and make millions?

Is this satire?

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Post by Sebguer »

greyskull wrote: post #308
yosefzeev wrote: post #307

So cloudflare basically fucks over 8chan over some skimpy mass shooting evidence, and now has a public offering as a corporate company? Get rid of free speech as internet police and sell stock and make millions?

Is this satire?

That'd be too optimistic.

Re: Cloudflare S-1

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Post by heyoni »

867-5309 wrote: post #284
apexalpha wrote: post #227

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>On average the human blink lasts only a tenth of a second which is 100 milliseconds. Wow, that’s fast! Sometimes, it can even last up to 400 milliseconds. This is what the second result says. Bit weird to focus on this for what seems a fantastic startup to succesfully IPO. Congratz to the entire team, and the CEO (who sometimes visits here I think)

not sure what your point is. pretty sure they use the average ms too in their estimate. this claim is the main driver of their business. they are basically saying their service is 3-4 times faster than blinking, which it is not. blinking is so fast you don't notice it, but that wasn't fast enough! so they amplified based on a dodgy source. false advertising gone nuts.

Absolutely. I think we should shut down the stock market until we get to the bottom of it.
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