Online casino with 4 million active users paying $250/month. That’s mental.
Cloudflare took down our site after trying to force us to pay $120k within 24h
Submitted 11 months ago by bot@lemmy.smeargle.fans [bot] to hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Really feels like a lot of info was left out
crazyminner@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Of course there was. They’re a casino, that’s their game. Lie and trick to get a better outcome.
Not defending CF. This article has me thinking maybe I should move to something from the open source community.
ramble81@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And that’s why they should never offer “unlimited” plans, because edge cases will cause issues. I would have definitely opened a support ticket right away the moment you found you you were talking to sales. Those two organizations tend to be diametrically opposed and you can usually find out what’s going on when commission isn’t involved.
This is a problem in general when relying on other vendors for things. I know you can’t just spin up your own CDN, but not locking yourself in goes a long way. The article gives some good tips for how to safeguard your company, especially around domain names, that’s the big thing. It would have been easy to change up an A record and point to a static page saying “Sorry, CloudFlare fucked us” as long as you still control DNS.
drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I understand the issue but you’re an online casino so I don’t care get bent