Random musings of a bored mind. probably a little bit to do with econs, soccer, and computers..
Anything dealing with money and internet is HARD. This is like complaining that you tried to be a veterinarian on the side and some animals died. There is a minimum amount of knowledge you need just to start. You presently don't know what you don't know in this space. Its dangerous.
but haha, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0! i can use it for my own mail tho.
The failure modes of each drive were different as well. The Intel drive entered a self-destruct mode to prevent it from being used after it was no longer able to guarantee its ability to reliably write, while the Kingston HyperX 3K threw SMART errors and vanished after a reboot. The Samsung 840 simply died without warning. However, it’s worth repeating that the failures didn’t occur until the drives had passed the manufacturer’s stated lifetime write limits many times over—it took almost a year of solid torture-test writes to get them to failure.
meowface 13 hours ago | link
Relating to the excellent amount of funding Cloudflare has been getting...
How exactly does Cloudflare afford to be a reverse proxy for millions of domains, at absolutely no charge? Are there some economies of scale I'm missing here? Obviously they make a good amount of revenue from their premium plans, but I suspect the vast, vast majority of all their users are on the free tier.
They're nearly an ISP at this point, so from a very naive outsider's perspective it sounds like they would be bleeding money from this approach.
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jgrahamc 13 hours ago | link
Obviously they make a good amount of money from their premium plans
You answered your own question.
They're nearly an ISP at this point
Not really, CloudFlare doesn't have any 'last mile' to pay for.
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meowface 13 hours ago | link
The thing is, it seems to me like a lot of sites that get a ton of traffic still use their free tier. There are no actual bandwidth limits at the free tier, just some missing features. They never require anyone to upgrade.
Even their higher tiers are pretty cheaply priced, including enterprise level: http://ift.tt/He5IEM
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jgrahamc 13 hours ago | link
They never require anyone to upgrade.
People upgrade to get better service (including the missing features) not because of some artificial limit (like bandwidth). If you upgrade because you want to, not because you have to, you're likely a better customer.
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meowface 13 hours ago | link
Personally I don't think bandwidth is an artificial limit, or that it's unreasonable to require an upgrade after a certain cap. A site with 100,000 daily visitors will be able to afford at least the business tier.
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jgrahamc 13 hours ago | link
Sure, but why treat a customer like a mobile phone customer who has to worry about what plan they are on to figure out how much they are spending?
It makes more sense to have flat pricing and to have feature that entice businesses to upgrade.
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angersock 11 hours ago | link
Wow. If I ever need a service like yours, you've got my business.
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frankacter 11 hours ago | link
Just in case you were unaware, jgrahamc (aka John Graham Cumming) is the Platform Lead for CloudFlare.
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eastdakota 11 hours ago | link
Actually, John Roberts is Platform Lead. John Graham-Cumming's very modest title is "programmer":
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ryguytilidie 9 hours ago | link
I'm confused...
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eastdakota 8 hours ago | link
There are no VPs, directors, etc. We tend toward functional titles: programmer, support, sales, member of technical staff.
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