Comment on In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?
monkeyman512@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I am no expert, so grains of salt and such. But my assumption is that it’s a marketing expense. They get a lot of people familiar with cloud flare services and some of them later need a professional level solution. So people use what they are already familiar with. This is the same reason why tech companies provide hardware/software to schools for cheap/free.
Marthirial@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Developers, like me, use the free tier for staging and testing and then when the project is deployed to production, I setup a paid account for the client.
I also use their domain registrar and sometimes buy CDN bandwidth in complex setups.