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Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h
(robindev.substack.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I really love cloudflare especially for my hobby projects but in this case they asked for outright Ransome. From this I learnt to keep Nameservers & domain sellers different. I am going to transfer domain away from nameserver.
Not just "this case", there's been countless cases like this with CF.
Could you provide a couple?
You can google for cloudflare issues ranging from providing hosting for actual nazi sites to extorting customers by threatening the exact scenario se saw in this blog post. Feel free to google "cloudflare account suspended" to see many posts about people having not just DDoS mitigation disabled, but everything related to an account deleted and disabled. Many of those people had the audacity to, get this, rely on DDoS protection! The nerve, right?
So no sources then?
If I have to dig, I'm most likely only getting one side of the story. This article pointed out that the customer broke the TOS and knew they were getting way better of a deal than they should've. I'm not so confident a random post online from angry customers is going to be so forthright.
That's why I'm asking. If you've seen some particularly interesting stories, it would certainly be easier for you to find them them me. I'm not looking for butthurt customers who got caught breaking the rules, I'm looking for legitimate cases of CF bullying rules-following customers into paying more.
I told you how to find them so you wouldn't have to bitch about my cherry picking. I can't help if you'd rather bury your head in the sand, and it makes no difference to me what you believe.