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CloudFront costs are super expensive outside of the US and Europe. We are a small company and just in south America we are paying 1000USD per month for 4 TB of
by base 10y ago
CloudFront costs are super expensive outside of the US and Europe. We are a small company and just in south America we are paying 1000USD per month for 4 TB of traffic (0.25$ per GB). Based on traffic alone we are loosing money with some customers.
- tomschlick 10y agoWhy not use something like CloudFlare for ~$200/mo?
- _kyran 10y agoCloudflare doesn't support large media files if I recall correctly. Also, it means using DNS with them as well.
- brianwawok 10y agoSeems like you should use CloudFront for things that are both small and need to be fast (HTML/ JS/ CSS), and then use a separate service for hosting your fat media files. Heck, rent a pair of servers with unlimited bandwith somewhere for $100 a month. Yes the bandwidth may be a bit oversold and spikey, but if a giant file download slows from 10 MB/ sec to 5 MB/sec for a bit, I doubt it matters THAT much.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoCheck out Fastly or CacheFly.
- base 10y agoWe have tried CloudFlare around 2 years ago, we had complains about performance issues so we changed back to CloudFront. Here is a blog post that shows the same problem we were having: http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/135/CDN-Benchmarks%3A-CloudFlare-vs-CloudFront http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/135/CDN-Benchmarks%3A-CloudF...