Comment by i_have_an_idea 3 months ago
The reason it's free and with unlimited bandwidth is that it's not.
Unless you stay very small, you'll eventually get on the radar of the sales team and you'll realize the service is neither unlimited nor free. In fact, you'll likely have to look at a 5 or 6-figure contract to remain on the service.
Workers are a very different product so I'm not too surprised by that. The main workers payment model is entirely concerned with CPU use and you must be minimizing that.
Do you have a counter example, or is this just your assumption?
Actually, I have a really good counter example but I'm unwilling to share it publicly, as I don't want to dox myself.
But the gist of it is that CF sales are really good at identifying users that are both locked into their offerings and big enough to be able to sign an expensive contract.
CF do have an excellent offering and workers, in particular, are amazing for many things.
Once the above conditions hit though, you will invariably get a call from the sales team. There is no free lunch.
"CF sales are really good at identifying users that are both locked into their offerings"
as I said in another comment, if you allow yourself to become deeply intertwined with a 3rd party service provider that's on you
I can second this. Their sales people have such poor behaviour that I am considering moving away simply on principle. There is nothing predictable about being on an enterprise contract and they will hit you with bullshit overage charges like using too many dns requests (wtf??) all of a sudden to force you onto a much larger contract. On the 28th of December no less ! We have used them for a very long time but I am having very big doubts about how much we can use them in the future even though their products are great.
(disclaimer: I'm an employee but no commission is earned for this, we just work hard, opinions on HN otherwise don't reflect that of my employer)
Big +1 for Bunny.net - I moved my current company to Bunny and it's been excellent. Super fast (for our PoPs at least), reasonable pricing, love the image optimizer & edge rules (especially for solving header issues when embedding documents), has a Terraform provider, and I was able to set most of it up in a day. Was a night and day difference from GCP's Cloud CDN
We use Bunny, and it’s been solid and super inexpensive. None of my production issues have ever been due to Bunny.
At the point where the sales team has already hit all the targets that are bigger than you.
(n = 1 & all) A project I co-develop pushed 30TB to 60TB per month on Cloudflare Workers in the past (for months on end) for $0. No one called us to sign 6 figure contracts.