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CloudFlare's TOS is clear on using the service to serve up 13.7GB files. https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ 2.8 Limitation on

CloudFlare's TOS is clear on using the service to serve up 13.7GB files. https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content [...] Use of the Service for serving video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited. So 500MB limit or not, the author is already violating CloudFlare's terms of service.

gregmac 6y ago
Even if you read the ToS, do you really expect people to remember this? CloudFlare blends into the background when setup properly, and you don't have to think about it. If you upload a big file to your site as part of some other work -- especially personal -- most people are not running through the ToS of every service that might be involved thinking about compliance. Terns of service are also legal "CYA" documents. If CloudFlare was actually serious about that restriction, there'd be a technical limitation in place that would, for example, serve a 503.
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- markonen 6y ago
  Cloudflare is serious about that restriction. They use it to upsell the Enterprise plan which doesn’t have it.
syshum 6y ago
The issue here, imo, is that CloudFlase deceptively hides these things in the TOS, and does not make it clear in the signup process, documentation, and other marketing about the limits of the service. if you look at the marketing is appears to be with out limit, now "unlimited" anything when it comes to technology should always through a red flag but CloudFlare as used this position to corner the market for CDN and DDOS services. I think it is deceptive to hide these limits of the service deep in the ToS which they know every few people actually read
- jiofih 6y ago
  They don’t hide anything. Cloudflare has always been aimed at protecting websites and applications, not file distribution. In fact I just went to their site and could not find a mention of file hosting or even “CDN” anywhere.
  - syshum 6y ago
    Really? https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn/ https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn/ hmmm Took me 5 seconds to find it. You are referring to thier DDOS service, here we are talking about the CDN Service and clicking through about 5 pages of marketing on the CDN, including the pricing page, as well as the FAQ I see no mention of file size limits, or file type limits

gregmac 6y ago

Even if you read the ToS, do you really expect people to remember this? CloudFlare blends into the background when setup properly, and you don't have to think about it. If you upload a big file to your site as part of some other work -- especially personal -- most people are not running through the ToS of every service that might be involved thinking about compliance. Terns of service are also legal "CYA" documents. If CloudFlare was actually serious about that restriction, there'd be a technical limitation in place that would, for example, serve a 503.

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markonen 6y ago
Cloudflare is serious about that restriction. They use it to upsell the Enterprise plan which doesn’t have it.

syshum 6y ago

The issue here, imo, is that CloudFlase deceptively hides these things in the TOS, and does not make it clear in the signup process, documentation, and other marketing about the limits of the service. if you look at the marketing is appears to be with out limit, now "unlimited" anything when it comes to technology should always through a red flag but CloudFlare as used this position to corner the market for CDN and DDOS services. I think it is deceptive to hide these limits of the service deep in the ToS which they know every few people actually read

jiofih 6y ago
They don’t hide anything. Cloudflare has always been aimed at protecting websites and applications, not file distribution. In fact I just went to their site and could not find a mention of file hosting or even “CDN” anywhere.
- syshum 6y ago
  Really? https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn/ https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn/ hmmm Took me 5 seconds to find it. You are referring to thier DDOS service, here we are talking about the CDN Service and clicking through about 5 pages of marketing on the CDN, including the pricing page, as well as the FAQ I see no mention of file size limits, or file type limits