there were concerns that we were meaningfully contributing to cloudflare's revenue, which is reasonable! it's not ideal to have your cohost plus subscription money indirectly going to a company whose values you very specifically do not like.
i alluded to this in the vaguest possible tones, for reasons that will soon become obvious, but we were not meaningfully contributing to their revenue. if anything, we were costing them money!
three-ish years ago, i complained on twitter about how cloudflare locked wildcard subdomain support behind their enterprise plan and we were looking for alternatives. a VP at cloudflare running their Startup Outreach program DM'd me offering to set us up with a free enterprise contract. this was supposed to last a year.
they completely forgot they did this and never followed up. we have paid cloudflare a grand total of $50 since then. i never said anything because it was a ticking time bomb; if they noticed and came calling, we'd be kind of boned. but they didn't, and now we're off them completely, so it doesn't fuckin matter! rest easy knowing your posting cost cloudflare money.
but also it doesn't fuckin matter anymore b/c we're off them. the migration means we actually have a CDN bill now, which is kind of a bummer, but it's fine because i'm genuinely happier with fastly.
thanks for using cohost!