4 Billion requests per month involving 1 Petabyte of traffic doesn't seem like a "small SAAS", at least packet-wise. If its small revenue-wise, addressing that is a business concern as important as having your platform throttled for using the cheapo economy edition tier of whatever you've signed up for with Cloudflare. Did Cloudflare issue any formal communication with you warning about usage and how it violates contractual terms, or did they "ban" you out of nowhere?
Sounds like OP has spoken with cloudflare previously about their usage/cloudflare services, likely looking to upgrade by the sounds of it but sales maybe gave the impression OP was ok on current level of service.
> I would fully understand that I am required to upgrade, but why not sending me an email before shutting down my business completely? I even asked about such scenario on zoom meeting I had with their Sales and they said it will never happen
> Sounds like OP has spoken with cloudflare previously about their usage/cloudflare services, likely looking to upgrade by the sounds of it but sales maybe gave the impression OP was ok on current level of service.
They've done this to me, too—I read the TOS and tech docs and plan details and ignored them, because according to their own stuff, they were wrong, and "first-tier sales guy said it" isn't a helpful recourse if you get told to leave (so, migration costs) or pay $$$$ because you're violating their documented permitted usage.
Hilariously, they also seemed really confused when I brought up a gaming use-case that they had an entire sales landing page for.
(Nb I actually like, use, and would recommend CloudFlare for some workloads and use-cases)
No formal communication at all as mentioned before if Enterprise plan is a must for my account I'll sign up on it, just was told before it was not required - I'm not using or need any enterprise level features.
I worked for a large bank, my internal backend would receive couple orders more requests from other internal apps and users and probably similar traffic.
It is very easy (relatively) to build a SaaS platform that serves this amount of traffic and this can be done by even a one determined individual or a small startup team.
I don't think it is useful to measure the size of the company in the amount of requests they are serving. Revenue/number of employees are much better measurements saying more about the type of things that are/can be happening. They may have relatively low margins per request and need to get to 4B to get by to pay for couple salaries?
I've worked with several EMR (Electronic Medical Record) systems that communicate an absolute metric shit-ton of redundant data for no reason other than just because and bad programming habits. Banking and Healthcare thrive in redundant redundancy.
