Comment by ycombinatrix
3 days ago
This org was getting Cloudflare owned IPs blocked left & right due to the gambling content.
The fees are for sure ridiculous but i don't think Cloudflare was wholly unreasonable to request that the customer bring their own IP.
Is it written anywhere in their ToS that “gambling content” requires you to pay 120k$ or get booted out? If not, then it's not reasonable at all to give them a 24-hour notice and it definitely sounds like extortion.
I don't buy the “was getting Cloudflare owned IPs blocked left & right” argument.
Remember we are talking about a platform that still protects 4chan despite the internet raids, violence threats, celebrity hacking + photos leak, the buffalo shooting, etc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Controversies_and_harass...
Surely there are abuse and fair use provisions in their ToS/contract for shared resources like IPs. If they're in the xx percentile of customers causing IP blocks they'd enforce.
Industry practice is to just move all the risky customers in an IP range dedicated to them