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I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. C
by Brajeshwar 1y ago
I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO.
I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it’s not costly, but I’m still in that cheap-feeling phase and not ready to offload over 100GB of files to the public while paying a price.
I looked at Bunny CDN a while back, but I remember thinking that the minimum was like ~$50. What did I miss? I dismissed it as non-personal option.
- ozim 1y agoCloudflare transfer is inflated. I have personal website via CF that there is no way is having transfer amounts they claim there is.
- Wowfunhappy 1y agoInteresting! Do you have any suspicions as to where Cloudflare’s numbers are coming from?
- ozim 1y agoReading other comments I might just underestimate amount of crawlers that just scrape everything.
- blargwill 1y agoThis is the first time I've read this but have personal experience similar. A few of my single page, gone nowhere, projects are seeing ~2k views a month. They're seeing zero traffic through google in that same period so no idea where it's coming from?
- 0x3f 1y agoHow recently? Because a ton of my current day traffic is LLM scraper activity.
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- portaltonowhere 1y ago$1 minimum for Bunny CDN. https://bunny.net/pricing/ https://bunny.net/pricing/
- Brajeshwar 1y agoYeah Ha! I saw that from this article and signed up. I even did the Card Verify thingy for $30 additional Credit. Will be trying this out and also do a comparison with Cloudflare R2.
- chrismorgan 1y ago> I even did the Card Verify thingy for $30 additional Credit. I hadn’t heard of this, only seen the “14 day free trial” thing, so I checked: the trial gives $20 of credit, and verifying a card gets you $30 more, but it’s all trial credits which expires 14 days after you create your account. In other words, completely useless for people looking to spend under the $1/month minimum. Pity, free for 2½ years sounded good.
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- Brajeshwar 1y agoYeah! Saw that. Did some comparison and I don’t think Bunny comes in cheap at the longer run. Cancelled subscription.
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- KomoD 1y ago> I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront > but I’m still in that cheap-feeling phase and not ready to offload over 100GB of files to the public while paying a price You wouldn't pay like anything for that on Cloudflare R2. You get 10GB and $0.015/GB (so what... like a dollar or something?) for anything over + free egress.
- miyuru 1y agoAWS CloudFront is free up to 1TB bandwidth and 10 million HTTP/HTTPS requests per month. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansion-100-gb-from-regions-and-1-tb-from-amazon-cloudfront-per-month https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer...
- Brajeshwar 1y agoI’ve come past way beyond the 1st year honeymoon with AWS. Edit: I’m sorry but I’m today years old learning that AWS indeed is free-ish, “Data Transfer from AWS Regions to the Internet is now free for up to 100 GB of data per month (up from 1 GB per region).” “Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month (up from 50 GB), and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup.” Now, I need to figure out why am I being billed each month for some of the files I use AWS for!
- anamexis 1y agoThe CloudFront free tier runs indefinitely.
- hexbin010 1y agoThat's old info. They free tier is now 100GB and 1M requests https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
- toddmorey 1y agoWait I don’t get it. CF is free for your use case, but you are looking for a cheap CDN? What’s cheaper than free?
- adamhartenz 1y agoThey are obviously looking for something to meet there future needs, not there current needs. It is free now, but they might be planning to one day tick over the free thresholds.
- Brajeshwar 1y agoI’ve got quite a few (very old) downloads coming to my websites, and I don’t want people to lose them. I also want to maintain a no-frills, store-and-forget thing that does not cost much. I was using AWS S3 + CloudFront for a long time, but I realized I was paying over $10 a month for something I didn’t even interact with or check often enough. I’m OK with a sub-$10/mo budget, but Amazon Web Services doesn’t offer a way to pay recurring charges with Indian Cards. After this thread, I read up a lot yesterday and realized that Amazon AWS India is now pretty well oiled and working. I might stick to it and pay it off in advance. I’d be more than glad to, say, pay off $100 a year and not think about it. The cost on AWS, I realize, is the S3 storage. Cloudflare is already fronting the CDN aspects of it. So, I was looking for something with a sweet spot, say, pay something in the lines of $10 a year, at max about $25 a year, and it just dumps all of my files now and, to an extent, in the long term.
- fatchan 1y agoI would hope the invoice is 0 for that amount of traffic.