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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):

This post was definitely demoted by HN. It stayed in the first position for less than 5 minutes and, as it quickly gathered upvotes, it jumped straight into 24th and quickly fell off the first page as it got 200 or so more points in less than an hour.

I'm 80% confident HN tried to hide this link. It's the fastest downhill I've noticed on here, and I've been lurking and commenting for longer than 10 years.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Isn't CF advertising themselves as the solution to needing multiple DNS' with their failsafes, switchovers and load balancing?

If I need to maintain multiple anyway, what's the benefit of CF to begin with? There are a million CDNs out there I could use instead, if I still have to maintain the network architecture.

[–] pete_the_cat 1 points 7 months ago

Regardless of what they tell you, if you care about uptime, you ensure this yourself. I feel this is 60% the company's fault and 40% Cloudflare's.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you believe everything that companies tell you? If Google or Apple tell you "we're the solution to everything, you never need to buy anything else", do you listen to them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No, but if I use a service to solve a specific problem only to see the need to have a failover in place regardless, I might as well not use the service.