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I'm using CloudFlare to hide my home IP and to reduce traffic from clankers. However, I'm using the free tier, so how am I the product? What am I sacrificing? Is there another way to do the above without selling my digital soul?

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 23 points 4 days ago

They have an upper limit. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/

A couple of my products went WAAAY above that and you essentially have to get a quick standard plan. If you have this problem, congrats, you are probably doing something really well or really bad!

They are not as bad as say AWS / Azures offerings when it comes to billing. Arguably, theres a reason they are still around when there are other tools that do similar things. Used to be, it was the most solid part of the infa. Nowadays....its for some reason going down quite often. And not just the world-wide issues taht everyone else is seeing. We have a product that CANNOT go down and cloudflare has been responsible for a couple of big issues, which is really unfortunate. Its still the best "work" service for what they do, but I dont have any of my personal infa connected.