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Cloudflare claims unlimited bandwidth then says you are using too much bandwidth? Isn't this one of those blatant false advertising claims? Also it's super un

Cloudflare claims unlimited bandwidth then says you are using too much bandwidth? Isn't this one of those blatant false advertising claims? Also it's super unfortunate if they go down breaking so many images hosted so many places.

mdasen 10y ago
Cloudflare's terms of service specifically deal with this: "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." If they put their website behind Cloudflare, but not their image serving domain, presumably that would be fine. Cloudflare is made for a site that serves up web pages with some content like your logo, a few images, etc. Those images can be cached and it's a small amount of data since something like the YC "Y" image is the same served for everyone on HN. A site like Postimage serves image content that's hard to cache since it's mostly different for each visitor. Cloudflare is pretty explicit that it's not meant for a site that will be mostly serving up loads of pictures.
- dismantlethesun 10y ago
  Postimage is an image hoster. 20 million of their 28 million unique monthy visitors are viewing images on pages they do not control. This means the majority of their bandwidth is going to people whom: a) Cannot be monetized via ads b) Are not on Postimage.com thus the site is breaking Section 10 of Cloudflare's services.
- derefr 10y ago
  > Cloudflare is made for a site that serves up web pages with some content like your logo, a few images, etc. For an interesting counter-example: 4chan (including its image-CDN subdomain!) is served through CloudFlare. It seems that CloudFlare really is willing to host and distribute multiple petabytes of image content per month, as long as it's for the sake of something else (e.g. pages of threaded conversation) that's not an "online storage space." Though, I think in 4chan's case it might also help that pages and their image resources both get expired off of the site quite quickly. You can create a page that hotlinks image URLs from 4chan's CDN subdomain, but the correspondent resources at those URLs won't be there five hours later, so there's little point to doing so. Unlike most image-hosts one could name.

mdasen 10y ago

Cloudflare's terms of service specifically deal with this: "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." If they put their website behind Cloudflare, but not their image serving domain, presumably that would be fine. Cloudflare is made for a site that serves up web pages with some content like your logo, a few images, etc. Those images can be cached and it's a small amount of data since something like the YC "Y" image is the same served for everyone on HN. A site like Postimage serves image content that's hard to cache since it's mostly different for each visitor. Cloudflare is pretty explicit that it's not meant for a site that will be mostly serving up loads of pictures.

dismantlethesun 10y ago
Postimage is an image hoster. 20 million of their 28 million unique monthy visitors are viewing images on pages they do not control. This means the majority of their bandwidth is going to people whom: a) Cannot be monetized via ads b) Are not on Postimage.com thus the site is breaking Section 10 of Cloudflare's services.
derefr 10y ago
> Cloudflare is made for a site that serves up web pages with some content like your logo, a few images, etc. For an interesting counter-example: 4chan (including its image-CDN subdomain!) is served through CloudFlare. It seems that CloudFlare really is willing to host and distribute multiple petabytes of image content per month, as long as it's for the sake of something else (e.g. pages of threaded conversation) that's not an "online storage space." Though, I think in 4chan's case it might also help that pages and their image resources both get expired off of the site quite quickly. You can create a page that hotlinks image URLs from 4chan's CDN subdomain, but the correspondent resources at those URLs won't be there five hours later, so there's little point to doing so. Unlike most image-hosts one could name.