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Cloudflare own and run the services they’re offering whereas it looks like Vercal storage is just other people’s services rebranded

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Users don't care about that.

Generally, that is very true. But when the bills start hitting, users absolutely do care and will go out of their way to avoid it.

Only when it reaches ridiculous enough number. Even as an individual who can easily do any cloud/k8s/lambdas/firecracker, I am paying Vercel a few hundred for my side projects.

True, but the ridiculous number might be lower than you expect. Vercel in particular has got a lot of feedback about their pricing!

… for as long as there is no cheaper competition.

They do, actually. We don't say anything about running our own infrastructure. And every time someone finds out, they're like "why didn't you lead with that?"

I'm surprised how much people care about what's under the covers.

I think that in many ways is because Fly's approach is sufficiently high-minded (in other words, aiming most comfortably at relatively difficult problems) that it's probably pretty automatic to assume that it's built on an existing hyperscaler. Mentioning that you run your own infrastructure adds encouragement that you know what you're doing.

Given the general state of PaaS offerings, this is a differentiator.

I think they care. Vercel is VC money. Not even close to profitability. Anyone building anything but a toy needs to take into consideration that Vercel might not be here in 2 years from now

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