Comment by jokethrowaway

This strategy works incredibly well and it's a continuation of their free dns proxy / caching service. It's a no brainer: the quality of the free services is unbeatable.

At the same time, everytime you need to buy something, you'll think "should I add a new cloud service or just buy Cloudflare?"

I don't like their almost monopoly-position but it's so good I use Cloudflare for all my projects and I keep recommending Cloudflare to all my clients.

In that regard, they remind me of a young Google.