> maybe briefly booting up another 100k isn’t going to be the end of the world
Cloudflare doesn’t run in AWS. They are a cloud provider themselves and mostly run on bare metal. Where would these extra 100k physical servers come from?
Cloudflare doesn’t run in AWS. They are a cloud provider themselves and mostly run on bare metal. Where would these extra 100k physical servers come from?
Doing stuff at scale doesn’t suddenly mean you skip testing.
And just because they host stuff themselves doesn’t mean they couldn’t run on the cloud if they needed to.
Their main cost of revenue is these infra costs.