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> We spoke to CloudFlare and were quoted a number we cannot reasonably achieve within our financial means, but we are investigating other solutions which may be more affordable and have a few avenues for research today, though we cannot disclose too many details without risking alerting the attackers to our plans.

Maybe someone higher up in Cloudflare here can escalate this subject and help them along for a proper quote?

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I don’t think people realize that a lot of Cloudflare’s free/cheap services are squarely focused on HTTP. Multi protocol stuff is on the enterprise plans where they make their money.

Just because the quote is expensive doesn't make it not a proper quote. Either CloudFlare does it for PR for free or they need paid for a proper quote.

Let me rephrase: Maybe they can negotiate a different quote?

The PR gained in the development community to help a service beloved by hackers in this site could be very beneficial.

Paid for in exposure

So you want them to be paid in exposure? If a company offers a service that another needs, but doesn't pay for, should they provide the service for free for them? If GitHub goes down, should CF provide the service to them for good PR?

I feel awful for sourcehut, but that doesn't mean that cloudflare should be obliged to support them for free or below cost rates.

Why should cloudflare be expected to foot the bill instead of sourcehut?

Helping out a useful service? Though who knows really. Cost of services and the price they are sold at are only loosely correlated!

Though honestly it’s totally possible that cloudflare was offering a real discount but it’s still just very high for something like sourcehut.

Yes, that could be the case.

I am unable to edit my original post anymore to reflect that is also my opinion :(

Maybe they were misquoted, who knows. Connections are a nice thing to have and I've never felt bad about asking, knowing the answer could full well be no, but a second opinion is useful when your business is on the line.

> Maybe they were misquoted

99.999999% chance they were not.

This might be due to how outrageous Cloudflare’s pricing is for protecting non-HTTP services like SSH (Cloudflare Spectrum.)

Why not showing the quote? Perhaps other companies could offer a better deal.

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