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This is great news. Cloudflare is way too expensive. Pricing seems reasonable Policy Charge $5 per Cloud Armor policy per month Per Rule Charge $1 per rule per

This is great news. Cloudflare is way too expensive. Pricing seems reasonable Policy Charge $5 per Cloud Armor policy per month Per Rule Charge $1 per rule per policy per month Incoming Requests Charge $0.75 per million HTTP(S) requests

foobarbazetc 9y ago
Gotta add load balancing charges to this as well, but still ends up cheaper than CF in some cases.
- tyingq 9y ago
  No caching provided either. Full on egress charges. Surely that makes the comparison apples/oranges.
  - dantiberian 9y ago
    Caching is provided with GCP HTTPS load balancers, it’s just not specified here.
    - tyingq 9y ago
      At Cloudflare like egress prices?
kentonv 9y ago
> Cloudflare is way too expensive. Eh? DDoS protection on Cloudflare is free: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/ Which features of Google Cloud Armor are "too expensive" with Cloudflare? (Disclosure: I'm an engineer at Cloudflare, but I'm genuinely curious what you mean here.)
- developer2 9y ago
  Not comparing to Cloud Armor, but the $200/month minimum to bring one's own tls certificate. That alone puts Cloudflare squarely on the list of unusable options for any small project or business that is running their entire production infrastructure on less than $100/month. Also, the inability to specify cache expirations below... what was it... 30 minutes or 2 hours? Again, forced to pay too much for one of the core features of a CDN.
  - zapita 9y ago
    I never thought I'd see the day when $200/month is considered "way too much" for a CDN... We've really come a long way. Personally I use Cloudflare's free tier for lots of projects, and it has a perfectly reasonable TLS offering.
  - kentonv 9y ago
    Hmm. Cloudflare provides free TLS certificates automatically. The feature you're describing is for if you want to upload your own certificate and private key to Cloudflare for it to use on the edge. Do a lot of small projects really need that?
  - manigandham 9y ago
    Do you really need your own certificate vs using their free provisioned ones? If you need that kind of technical details than Cloudfront or Stackpath are pretty good for low traffic sites.
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foobarbazetc 9y ago

Gotta add load balancing charges to this as well, but still ends up cheaper than CF in some cases.

tyingq 9y ago
No caching provided either. Full on egress charges. Surely that makes the comparison apples/oranges.
- dantiberian 9y ago
  Caching is provided with GCP HTTPS load balancers, it’s just not specified here.
  - tyingq 9y ago
    At Cloudflare like egress prices?

kentonv 9y ago

> Cloudflare is way too expensive. Eh? DDoS protection on Cloudflare is free: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/ Which features of Google Cloud Armor are "too expensive" with Cloudflare? (Disclosure: I'm an engineer at Cloudflare, but I'm genuinely curious what you mean here.)

developer2 9y ago
Not comparing to Cloud Armor, but the $200/month minimum to bring one's own tls certificate. That alone puts Cloudflare squarely on the list of unusable options for any small project or business that is running their entire production infrastructure on less than $100/month. Also, the inability to specify cache expirations below... what was it... 30 minutes or 2 hours? Again, forced to pay too much for one of the core features of a CDN.
- zapita 9y ago
  I never thought I'd see the day when $200/month is considered "way too much" for a CDN... We've really come a long way. Personally I use Cloudflare's free tier for lots of projects, and it has a perfectly reasonable TLS offering.
- kentonv 9y ago
  Hmm. Cloudflare provides free TLS certificates automatically. The feature you're describing is for if you want to upload your own certificate and private key to Cloudflare for it to use on the edge. Do a lot of small projects really need that?
- manigandham 9y ago
  Do you really need your own certificate vs using their free provisioned ones? If you need that kind of technical details than Cloudfront or Stackpath are pretty good for low traffic sites.

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