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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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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[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

First of all, congrats! Your business must have become pretty successful. How exactly did CF decide to “ask” you to switch to Enterprise?

Maybe...

* You violated their terms of service...

I wouldn't say Cloudflare is innocent, here, but this business handled Cloudflare the cudgel that was used to beat them. They admit to doing something with their domains that was expressly prohibited in the service they were paying for.

[–] Trae@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then they offered to resolve it in whatever way CF deemed appropriate and CF refused to elaborate exactly which domains were the issue.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

resolve it in whatever way CF deemed appropriate

CloudFlare deemed the upgrade to Enterprise service appropriate.