Comment by fishstock25
2 days ago
Oh boy, where to start..
> So why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
> Why indeed. Strategically, Cloudflare offering unlimited bandwidth for small static sites like mine fits in with its other benevolent services
Those are not "benevolent". Seeing a substantial amount of name resolutions of the internet is a huge and unique asset that greatly benefits their business.
> like 1.1.1.1 (that domain lol)
It's an IP address, not a domain. And they paid a lot of money for that "lol", so that people have an easy time remembering it. Just like Google with 8.8.8.8. Not to be benevolent, but to minimize the threshold for you to give them your data.
> Second, companies like Cloudflare benefit from a fast, secure internet.
It's the exact opposite. The less secure the internet, the more people buy Cloudflare's services. In a perfectly secure intetnet, nobody would need Cloudflare.
> And they paid a lot of money for that "lol"
They didn’t pay any money for it. They were given it for free for a collaboration with APNIC.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
"For free" and "collaboration", right. Just like my employer gives me lots of stock options "for free" every quarter, it just happens to be the case that I also do a lot of programming for them every day, "for free", as a form of "collaboration".
Oh, you are saying it's a mutual deal I'm having with my employer, they get sth out of it and I also do? You don't say..
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If you go to https://1.1.1.1 it redirects you to https://one.one.one.one, I think that's what the author meant.
The hyperlink for it on the page is one.one.one.one even.
Oddly, one.one is owned and redirects to the unrelated domain registrar one.com. I wonder how much cloudflare pay them to use that subdomain.