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Is R2 egress actually free, or is it like CFs CDN egress which is "free" until they arbitrarily decide you're using it too much or using it for the wrong things
by jsheard 2y ago
Is R2 egress actually free, or is it like CFs CDN egress which is "free" until they arbitrarily decide you're using it too much or using it for the wrong things so now you have to pay $undisclosed per GB?
- shivasaxena 2y agoI would say don't run a casino on cloudflare
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- MortyWaves 2y agoI am also surprised that 4chan is using Cloudflare captcha and bot protection
- byyll 2y agoWhat is surprising about that? Cloudflare also provides services to terrorists, CSAM websites and more.
- telgareith 2y agoNice job painting CF as the had guy. They do NOT provide services to such, again and again they have terminated such for breach of TOS and cooperated with the legal system.
- MassiveQuasar 2y ago[flagged]
- dmd 2y agoGood to know. Please make an uncontroversial list of all the human activities that you think shouldn't be allowed on cloudflare (or perhaps in general). Then we can all agree to abide by it, and human conflict will end!
- troyvit 2y agoCloudflare is a company, not a public utility. If they want to disallow any sites that make fun of cuttlefish they get to do that. If you want a CDN that follows the rules of a public utility I think you're out of luck on this planet.
- dmd 2y agoI agree with you. I'm saying that cloudflare gets to decide that, not a random HN commenter.
- troyvit 2y agoDoh! Sorry I misunderstood you dmd
- neom 2y agoIn addition to this, if CFs say...payment provider, hated people making fun of cuttlefish, it might make sense for CF to ban marine molluscs maming there also.
- levifig 2y agoYou can very well run a casino on Cloudflare: - https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/softswiss/ https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/softswiss/ - https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/wa-technology/ https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/wa-technology/
- steelbrain 2y agoDo you have any examples of the latter? From what I remember reading, the most recent case was a gambling website and cloudflare wanted them to upgrade to a tier where they’d have their own IPs. This makes sense because some countries blanket ban gambling website IPs. So apart from ToS abuse cases, do you know any other cases? I ask as a genuine curiosity because I’m currently paying for Cloudflare to host a bunch of our websites at work.
- jsheard 2y agoHere's some anecdotes I dug up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960189 Put another way, if Cloudflare really had free unlimited CDN egress then every ultra-bandwidth-intensive service like Imgur or Steam would use them, but they rarely do, because at their scale they get shunted onto the secret real pricing that often ends up being more expensive than something like Fastly or Akamai. Those competitors would be out of business if CF were really as cheap as they want you to think they are. The point where it stops being free seems to depend on a few factors, obviously how much data you're moving is one, but also the type of data (1GB of images or other binary data is considered more harshly than 1GB of HTML/JS/CSS) and where the data is served to (1GB of data served to Australia or New Zealand is considered much more harshly than 1GB to EU/NA). And how much the salesperson assigned to your account thinks they can shake you down for, of course.
- hiatus 2y agoTheir terms specifically address video/images: > Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action. https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-application-services/#content-delivery-network-terms https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...
- machinekob 2y agoHappen before will happen again. CF is a publicly traded company and when the squeeze comes, they’ll just tax your egress as hard as amazon.
- tshaddox 2y agoIt's not unreasonable for a service provider to describe their service as "free" even though they will throttle or ban you for excessive use.