alt Hacker NewsCloudflare turning into a Cloud platform is undoing what it was really doing well: making small clouds and diy hosting manageable in the hostile web environment.
Once their revenue from Cloud services overtakes their core offering, bye bye Cloudflare free and so on.
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I doubt it. It’s cheap to run and a good funnel
> Once their revenue from Cloud services overtakes their core offering, bye bye Cloudflare free and so on.
Wait so what do you think their core offering is?
You don't know Cloudflare?
Their first products were production grade examples of the SDN that required a lot of bandwidth (DDOS/CDN).
The cloud is a logical continuation.
Their business was always the "internet", see their ticker => NET.
Dev free is part of the marketing cost and would stay under the current leadership.
Cloudflare free is the business model: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/