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I work for CloudFlare. The key part of that clause is this: the purpose of CloudFlare’s Service is to proxy web content, not store data. Using an acco
by buro9 11y ago
I work for CloudFlare.
The key part of that clause is this:
the purpose of CloudFlare’s Service is to proxy web content, not store data.
Using an account primarily as an online storage space, including the storage or
caching of a disproportionate percentage of pictures, movies, audio files, or
other non-HTML content, is prohibited
The site in question is also on CloudFlare, and so this clause does not apply. The cached assets are neither disproportionate nor is this being used as a storage space (S3 is still that).
- mwcampbell 11y agoAh, OK. I thought the key concern was bandwidth, not storage.
- buro9 11y agoIt is. From Amazon S3, who charge you for it. Then to Linode who don't charge if you're below an allowance. Then onto CloudFlare who do not charge you for it at all. I was a CloudFlare customer long before being a CloudFlare employee.
- mwcampbell 11y agoHow can CloudFlare afford to not charge for bandwidth at all? I figured the point of section 10 was to prevent abuse of that free bandwidth.
- buro9 11y agoThe clause is there to provide a tool to deal with some of the interesting things that people will try and use a CDN with no bandwidth charge for. i.e. what if whole movies were given a different content type and file extension, would CloudFlare suddenly be the world's largest CDN of pirated movies? Most such questions have been tried already, the clause allows us to answer "only for an exceptionally short amount of time".
- homero 11y agoI know! Because they pay for percentile, having high output makes their ddos input free
- buro9 11y agoThis is also true :) And we can negotiate better prices with more traffic, etc.