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A very high traffic CDN customer is likely to run afoul of section 2.8, Limitation on Non-HTML Caching, of the Cloudflare Self-Serve Subscription Agreement: >

A very high traffic CDN customer is likely to run afoul of section 2.8, Limitation on Non-HTML Caching, of the Cloudflare Self-Serve Subscription Agreement: > The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other application and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) protocol or other equivalent technology. Use of the Service for the storage or caching of video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited. This limitation does not exist on the Enterprise plan, and Cloudflare salespeople are likely to make that point when selling the upgrade.

Strom 8y ago
Oh wow, they added that back. Bummer. It used to be SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING. [1] Then with the May 25, 2018 update to the terms [2] they removed that limitation. It has a section 2.7 Acceptable Use but no 2.8. Then they announced their Bandwidth Alliance on September 26, 2018 [3] offering some interesting free bandwidth options, including with places like backblaze which are primarily for storing non-html content. At the time of the announcement it seemed pretty mind blowing, especially because the non-html limitation had been removed previously. However it looks like they later updated their terms again on October 26, 2018 [4] to put back the limitation as section 2.8 Limitation on Non-HTML Caching. Quite unfortunate. I was actually looking forward to using the bandwidth alliance benefit to access my B2 buckets, however looks like it's against the rules again. -- [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180413184130/https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180413184130/https://www.cloud... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20181002020343/https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181002020343/https://www.cloud... [3] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20181102014745/https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181102014745/https://www.cloud...

Strom 8y ago

Oh wow, they added that back. Bummer. It used to be SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING. [1] Then with the May 25, 2018 update to the terms [2] they removed that limitation. It has a section 2.7 Acceptable Use but no 2.8. Then they announced their Bandwidth Alliance on September 26, 2018 [3] offering some interesting free bandwidth options, including with places like backblaze which are primarily for storing non-html content. At the time of the announcement it seemed pretty mind blowing, especially because the non-html limitation had been removed previously. However it looks like they later updated their terms again on October 26, 2018 [4] to put back the limitation as section 2.8 Limitation on Non-HTML Caching. Quite unfortunate. I was actually looking forward to using the bandwidth alliance benefit to access my B2 buckets, however looks like it's against the rules again. -- [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180413184130/https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180413184130/https://www.cloud... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20181002020343/https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181002020343/https://www.cloud... [3] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20181102014745/https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181102014745/https://www.cloud...