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I 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
by chmod775 6y ago
I 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.