2.Cloudflare may, with or without notice to you and without liability of any kind, temporarily limit your storage and/or the number of requests you can make or receive using the Developer Platform for any reason (in its sole reasonable discretion), including without limitation, if processing such requests would put an undue burden on the Cloudflare network, adversely impact the Service, or otherwise threaten the integrity of Cloudflare’s networks.
To be fair I'm using lots of requests and bandwidth so could be reason, just if only I got an email about that before shutting everything down.
Also, while that's in the terms that's a generic get out clause I know they need but doesn't at all help you figure out what services are ok.
It's definitely an unfriendly combo to have (a) a really ambiguous policy like 2.8 and (b) enforcing via a no-warning cutoff -- even if the two policies have good justifications individually. But I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that part (b) is part of the sales strategy. (Part (a) obviously is meant to incentivize a paid account for applications like yours.)
I agree... sort of? I mean, this is Cloudflare, right? It isn't as if a huge, legit traffic spike should tax their infra.
IMO, there should be zero shutdown for any long term client, for any reason, at all, ever, without an form of contact.
So weird to have stable uptimes, then support saying "we sorta think you were blocked because..."
So, even account info, with a valid "block" reason, isn't available to their own staff. EG, even their own staff aren't notified?!?
This is sales 101. Mega-simple stuff.
"Hi! You are doing bad thing X, and it needs to change, but we can fix that right now! Let me help you..."
> Traffic from this customer went suddenly from an average of 1,500 requests per second, and a 0.5MB payload per request, to 3,000 requests per second (2x) and more than 12MB payload per request (25x)
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/cloudflare_traffic_th...