Edit: Consider this article, and Geoff's statement about Azure credits.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/21/microsoft_revokes_mvp...
How is using cloudflare okay in this then? Cloudflare is also not Azure
"Firstly, I always knew bandwidth on Azure was expensive and I should have been monitoring it better, particularly on the storage account serving the most data."
...and he didn't have simple monitors in place to alert him of uncommon billing spikes.
I get your point, if he's not OK with using Hetzner how is Cloudflare any better? It's not. But the reality is Cloud operations are a fine dance of weaving services together to realize all of the heavily advertised savings. I'd argue that a lot of Troy's projects that use all of the cloud native functions could have also been implemented on much more standard stacks and, likely, been just as cost and performance effective. But that's not going to get him the advertising for Microsoft.
You want to waste money? Hire a car, with a driver, when you need it.
Want to save money. Learn to drive.
You always pay more for outsourcing stuff, a lot more, than doing it yourself.
You can buy 1000x the processing power, by buying baremetal. You can get 100,000x more bandwith for cost, when not using the cloud.
People think baremetal is hard. It isn't. It does take knowledge.
I haven't checked, but are the prices for Azure CDN relatively competitive with Cloudflare? I think you'd probably get similar savings going that route, and it would all be Azure.
I'd be suprised if his Microsoft Regional Director and MVP status isn't worth much more than 4 figures to him.
Those seeking to initiate engagements with Troy might care more about the fact that he pops up on HN and other high profile tech outlets frequently and the visibility of Have I Been Pwned, but the Regional Director status probably helps a lot with getting some of these engagements signed off.
He probably also receives significant subsidies from Microsoft as well.
= Azure has an integration to use cloudflare for the cdn.
They also offer Azure CDN, as a competing product. But I don't know if anybody takes it serious or not
Well, it might also come with contacts in the billing department.
> I'm going to miss the $13,000 USD (yes) a year in free azure credits. Just remember this amount of money when you are reading content about "how good azure is" and "what the latest and greatest is" from influencers and community leaders here on social media...
Seriously, yeah, if he's an MVP, he'll be fine.
