Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h
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TL;DR: We've been on the Cloudflare Business plan ($250/month) for years. They suddenly contacted us and asked us to either pay them $120k up front for one year of Enterprise within 24 hours or they would take down all of our domains. While this escalated up our business we had 3 sales calls with them, trying to figure out what was happening and how to reach a reasonable contract in a week. When we told them we were also in talks with Fastly, they suddenly "purged" all our domains, causing huge downtime in our core business, sleepless nights migrating away from CF, irreparable loss in customer trust and weeks of ongoing downtime in our internal systems.

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.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8012·
    1 year ago

    The biggest red flag is the up-front payment for a year, gives the indication that they are in actual financial trouble, meaning short in cash right now.

    Fucking idiots could have been just increasing the price yearly without any resistance, it’s unlikely a big casino would care about an extra 50-100 per month.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      284·
      1 year ago

      I’m pretty heavily invested in cloudflare. This news is definitely making me reconsider that investment.

      What I can say, is their stock is looking very healthy. There are a lot of people buying a lot of stock for them and the prospect over the next 3 to 5 months looks very promising. The only way they wouldn’t have cash on hand as if they’re spending a ridiculous amount of cash on some project that I’m not aware of, and I feel like I would be aware of it.

      This is very peculiar. Definitely warrants further investigation.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        1 year ago

        The only way they wouldn’t have cash on hand as if they’re spending a ridiculous amount of cash on some project that I’m not aware of, and I feel like I would be aware of it.

        Maybe someone dipshit in marketing heavily invested in LLMs, since that’s the current hype among dipshits?

        • kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Cloudflare is publicly traded. They had $1.6 billion in cash or equivalents in December. Maybe they want to grease up the quarter to show better growth against the market, but that is a fuckload of cash.

          • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            or maybe it’s just a lower level manager who wants to polish up their revenue numbers to ask for a raise / promotion :) capitalists are ugly little critters like that.

    • Goodie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s far more likely there’s some sales goal and or performance indicator at play here.