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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by starman@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The $250/month plan supposedly includes unlimited traffic. If there's actually a limit where you're supposed to switch to a more expensive plan with no standardized price, maybe CF should say what the limit is?

[–] draughtcyclist@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They absolutely should have outlined a traffic limit for the $250 a month plan. That's on Cloudflare for allowing it.

That said, if you make wildly excessive use of that loophole it probably shouldn't surprise you if they do something like this. They called it "trust and safety" because it allows them to do anything they want under the guide of security.

Really, they didn't define their service clearly and wanted to fire them as a customer unless they paid up for what they felt they were owed.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If something is marketed as "unlimited", I don't think there is such a thing as "wildly excessive use". This isn't a competitive eater going to an all-you-can-eat buffet and being mad about getting kicked out. It's a business using a service in a way that's seemingly in-line with what they paid for.

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's the same definition of "unlimited" that Telcos use: you pay for unlimited but it really is XXgb of data per month, after that they either disconnect you or throttle your traffic at a glacial pace...

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 0 points 4 months ago

And in both cases, that is bullshit. Just because it happens doesn't mean we should accept it.