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

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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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[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago (18 children)

The tl;dr seems to be this was a money losing account for Cloudflare, and they couldn't squeeze them so they weaseled out with some TOS violation to prevent losing money on what was promised to be unlimited traffic, they have better lawyers so they're not worried.

Cloudflare 100% in the wrong here, they are closing accounts for TOS violations when they are just unprofitable, I would very strongly consider how tightly to couple with them knowing how cavalier they are about squashing small businesses.

If enough of these happen though, they'll get destroyed by a class action lawsuit, and they'd deserve every bit of it

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Okay, yes this is an issue. But small business? This was a multinational casino site… that doesn’t scream small business to me.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Online casinos can become international very simply, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a big company. You usually get a license and can operate in that country + a number of gray markets. Ofc there are also huge companies, but "international" doesn't mean much for an online business.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes… but 4 million active users is quite high. I doubt anyone would consider that “small business”.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, that's true. I guess that is for sure a better metric that being "international".

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