Just an FYI, might be relevant in the future.
https://robindev.substack.com/ ... re-took-down-our-website

TL;DR :
We've been on the Cloudflare Business plan ($250/month) for years. They suddenly contacted us and asked us to either pay them $120k up front for one year of Enterprise within 24 hours or they would take down all of our domains. While this escalated up our business we had 3 sales calls with them, trying to figure out what was happening and how to reach a reasonable contract in a week. When we told them we were also in talks with Fastly, they suddenly "purged" all our domains, causing huge downtime in our core business, sleepless nights migrating away from CF, irreparable loss in customer trust and weeks of ongoing downtime in our internal systems.

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Just an FYI, might be relevant in the future...

I see two possibilities here.

1. Cloudflare did not want to continue working with online casinos for ethical reasons. And for this reason, it first wanted the client himself to abandon the service by giving an unreasonably high price for services, and after client began negotiations they removed cached versions of sites from their servers. Which it has the right to do as a private company. It's just like a bar owner can kick you out without justifying why.

2. Cloudflare did this regardless of what the client was doing on its services, but it found out about the client's income, and just wanted to increase its income through blackmailing him. It should be said that these are partly non-contradictory versions and therefore it can be a variant somewhere in the middle.

I also noticed that the LFS site and servers are still subject to short-term crashes. And I'm not sure if cloudflare helps with that.

Risk profile of an online casino probably justifies an enterprise level plan.

Although the core premise of CF being garbage isn't wrong either. They're the ones who stood strong being a service provider for a site dedicated to doxxing folks, primarily trans people.

Or that they were found engaging in circumvention tactics to avoid country-based DNS blocking, which goes against Cloudflare's terms of service, per in their writings:

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Another is that we use them to target different global user groups and affiliates and track conversions long-term. This also means that if a country DNS-blocks our main domain, a secondary domain may still be available. This could arguably be seen as a violation of the Cloudflare TOS, as they wrote above.

Which could be the case given that they targeted players from countries that outlawed gambling by offering conveniences with their language preferences (e.g Indonesia, Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand)