Timeline for answer to How can CloudFlare offer a free CDN with unlimited bandwidth? by Matthew Prince
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| May 14, 2021 at 6:02 | comment | added | Dojo | Wow, interesting. Not a single point sounded like corporate BS. | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 8:19 | comment | added | Suragch | I joined this community just to upvote this post. | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 17:55 | comment | added | forresthopkinsa | @felixbuenemann Unfortunately the project does require worrying about codecs etc., as the users first download the files into local storage, and then the web app plays them from there. It's a weird app, yeah. They've been using GCS but lately it's been pretty cheap anyway afaik. I'll look into DigitalOcean's offering, thanks! | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 16:57 | comment | added | felixbuenemann | @forresthopkinsa The best thing you can do for videos is to host them via a specialized service like YouTube, Vimeo or even CloudFlare's (paid) white label service, since you don't have to wory about video codecs, resolutions, bitrate, players etc. If you really need static file hosting than DigitalOcean's S3 compatible object storage with built-in CDN should be very competitive at 1 cent per GB and 1 TB traffic / 250 GB storage included in the 5 $ minimum monthly charge. | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 21:39 | comment | added | forresthopkinsa | Matthew, I'm considering using CF free tier for a site I'm collaborating with a couple other people on. They're using Google Cloud Platform for a small site that users frequently download the same couple 1-2GB .mp4 files from (no, it's not a porn/pirating/etc site). The issue is that the GCP egress charges for those files end up being way more than the rest of the server costs. If CF free tier can support these files, I could reduce their server costs by probably 75% -- but I don't want to accidentally break your TOS by using too much bandwidth. Can you weigh in on this situation? Thanks! | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 14:25 | comment | added | TBB | I'd also add: "Competition: It doesn't hurt that an awesome free tier makes it much harder for others to break into the market." ;) | |
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| Jan 10, 2016 at 21:01 | history | answered | Matthew Prince | CC BY-SA 3.0 |