Why Cloudflare in 2025? A Developer & Entrepreneur’s Take (Not Sponsored)

The problem was that it is a startup. I still own this company. There was just a lot of expenses associated with very little gains in terms of performance and returns that we were getting from our customers. Customers were paying us way less than our server costs and so it {ts:273} just wasn't a sustainable model. … It's just because what happens is you give up a lot of control. That's number one. And number two is on for a very {ts:773} small website, this works perfectly fine. However, for a really large website, the cost dramatically increases at this particular point. Talk about some costs with Cloudflare as well too. … {ts:886} towing the line between these two worlds. And with that, it comes some interesting sort of side effects that you wouldn't necessarily think about. Number one is developers when they look at it, they kind of think of it like the all-in-one platforms. And that's been definitely for me the hardest transition because as a seasoned developer I want … I'm butchering this on multiple fronts deliberately. We're really just trying {ts:1289} to get you to understand a concept rather than the technical details. There's lots of technical details, okay? But this is how you think about it. One of the problems that you run into with this particular model with the shared server is that the code if let's say you're hitting your server with a whole bunch of requests cuz you're getting a lot of traffic because your website is really big.