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Re: Cloudflare took down our website

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just 10k a month. it's 10k a month for the plan that allows you to BYOIP (Bring your own IP addresses). That was cloudflare's issue. Their business was causing IP reputation damage and all plans but the enterprise BYOIP plans share the same IP pool. Essentially it was "use your own IP pool and pay us for the cost of maintaining that pool for you or GTFO". This wasn't just a normal sales rep hitting them up.…

> So this really should be seen as an act of goodwill rather than malice. It's called "extortion"

Of course not

You put yourself in a bad spot. We can either kick you out or work (for a price) to help you.

Extortion ? Hardly. Nobody work for free, you know.

Re: Cloudflare took down our website

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The way Cloudflare approaches situations like this is not ideal for anyone. You start using the service and don't pay a lot, so you make plans around a certain level of expenses. Then out of the blue you receive an "urgent" email from a sales representative and suddenly you have to go from $20 or $250 to $thousands right away. Obviously it's not in CF's interest to keep a customer that doesn't pay enough, but droppin…

have you seen the twitter post from Gamdom about mentioning the fastly quote in negotiations? they were taken down instantly. It doesn't sound safe to mention competitors with them or even exercise the prospect of leaving
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