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Does anyone know if Cloudflare is cool with audio files? I know they don’t want you to serve video. Or any similar fast CDNs allowing for audio files.
by ffritz 6y ago
Does anyone know if Cloudflare is cool with audio files? I know they don’t want you to serve video.
Or any similar fast CDNs allowing for audio files.
- chmod775 6y agoI think they just don't want you to serve large stuff, because their CDN isn't optimized for that. I serve all kinds of files <10mb via CF, that includes audio, video, images etc. Files over >10mb I handle myself. Around 100TB is handled by CF each month and around 700TB by my own servers (4 Hetzner dedicated servers). The whole setup costs me around 300 euros/month paid to Hetzner, and 20 to CF. That means I pay around 40 cents / TB. So far CF hasn't complained, and I've been using them for years. Though they try to pitch me their higher priced plans now and then.
- salex89 6y agoI've never used Cloudflare, so I got to ask, do they prohibit serving large files or discourage by some quota?
- chmod775 6y agoI've only heard stories of people getting terminated over abusing their CDN like that, and I don't fancy being next.
- 0xbkt 6y agoThey suspend accounts (after months if not immediately) that abuse serving disproportionate amount of non-HTML content, videos specifically. However there is still ambiguity (or lack of detail) in their terms if you can use their Workers, a paid FaaS, to stream blob data.
- poxrud 6y agoI thought this only applies to their free accounts, and that they have no issues with serving any size files as long as you pay them.
- hobofan 6y ago> I know they don’t want you to serve video. They do have an optimized product for that with Cloudflare Streaming.
- XCSme 6y ago> I know they don’t want you to serve video. They do cache small video files, even for free, but I think they don't want you to run a streaming business on top of them (without using their dedicated service).