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Cloudflare has always had free bandwidth and you can point the origin to whatever you want, including Backblaze which has free interconnect and cheaper pricing.
by manigandham 5y ago
Cloudflare has always had free bandwidth and you can point the origin to whatever you want, including Backblaze which has free interconnect and cheaper pricing.
- acdha 5y ago> Cloudflare has always had free bandwidth and you can point the origin to whatever you want. Not completely: if you used a ton of bandwidth (especially non-HTML/JSON) they'd want you to switch to a paid plan. Using an arbitrary origin server is similarly different, too: that means a lot more traffic coming back to your origin server unless all of your clients are located right next to each other hitting the same edge node. The mechanism they built to do an on-demand copy from S3 to R2 once and serve all subsequent requests from the replicated R2 copy should use substantially less bandwidth and will be faster for all of the requests received from clients which are closer to one of the R2 replicas than your origin server.
- Strom 5y ago> Cloudflare has always had free bandwidth Only for HTML content. [1] That is the real disruption here. -- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682885