Most of Cloudflare’s services in China have encountered interference and blocking by GFW, resulting in an extremely slow access speed. Currently, Cloudflare’s China optimization products (cooperated with JD Cloud) are only available in enterprise packages, and ordinary developers cannot afford such high costs. So, can Cloudflare provide a China-optimized package specifically for Chinese developers? Let us enjoy both Cloudflare’s high-speed services and Cloudflare’s excellent firewall rule set.
I’d say optimistically speaking, probably not… The said network likely costs a lot of money, even for an organization like Cloudflare too.
I think they’re using the extra money to fill out for cheaper residential broadband connections.
On an unrelated note, here’s when Twitch had to pull out of Korea:
And this was mainly because of the high costs too, so yeah. Tough times.
After looking at your homepage, you should be a Chinese, and you should know that when itdog http is tested, the website will be red(means timeout) all over the China when cloudflare is used.
I think CF can make a decentralized product so that developers who have ICP and public network security records can access CF China lines, instead of using the China Enterprise Edition with a starting price of 5000USD.
Yes, I’m aware sites behind CF services could be slow or sometimes unusable in parts of the PRC, but it’s pretty apparent that’s not Cloudflare’s fault. They’re doing the best they can.
I get what you’re trying to say, which is that Cloudflare should start similar businesses in the PRC to what they’re currently offering overseas, maybe with reasonable pricing and stricter regulations. Perhaps they’ll do that but I don’t feel like they would, since they’re already running lots of businesses here as one of the top-tier solution providers. It would be interesting to see what they think about this though.
Also, holy cow, I didn’t know that plan was 5,000 dollars per month. Yeah it’s enterprise so that’s not an astronomical number but I definitely can’t afford that much. Thx for the info tho…
Oh, it says custom pricing so I figured 5,000 USD per month should be the starting price.
It’s probably not that hard for medium to large corporations to adopt though…
With that said, it indeed would be nice to have cheaper or free options open to a wider range of users, though I doubt that’ll ever happen because of the underlying costs.