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Cloudflare allegedly forced the author to pay $120,000 upfront or risk having their website shut down. The author discusses the aggressive sales tactics of Cloudflare and shares their negative experience.

Cloudflare: Pay Me 120k Or We Shut You Down

I’ll repeat what I posted elsewhere:
If you’re running a large online casino, with 4M monthly users, and were only paying $250/month for these services which are fundamental to the operation of your business, then you’re taking, the fucking, piss.
You absolutely should have been on an enterprise plan, paying based on your usage, and if that’s going to cost $120k per year, then it should give you a good indication just how much you were taking the piss on a $250/month plan.
If your CEO and CTO started trying to play hard ball using the threat of moving to a competitor as a negotiation tactic, then they very clearly had no idea of the actual situation you were in. It’s a dick move, and they were called out for it.
Your $250 probably wouldn’t even cover Cloudflare’s admin costs for all the back and forth. Do you not see this?
Having you as a customer would have been costing Cloudflare significantly more than you were paying them, and if you weren’t prepared to pay for what you were actually using, then of course they’d be very happy for you to go elsewhere, where you’ll be charged a lot more that $250/month. If you’re still only paying your new provider that amount, then it’ll not be long before they realise it’s not worth their while having you as a customer either.