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If I remember correctly they use Cloudflare quite a bit. This probably decreases their actual traffic by a tremendous amount, since they vast majority of their
by DangerousPie 13y ago
If I remember correctly they use Cloudflare quite a bit. This probably decreases their actual traffic by a tremendous amount, since they vast majority of their bandwidth comes from easily cacheable images.
- jonknee 13y agoCloudFlare doesn't bring your bandwidth costs down, it just makes them get sent out faster. It is indeed impressive that they can serve so much based on ads that many people never see (due to embeds and the like).
- DangerousPie 13y agoThis is not correct. If you set the correct headers, Cloudflare routinely caches files on their edge servers and serves them from there. My traffic dropped noticeably after activating Cloudflare, and I am not doing any file hosting.
- revelation 13y agoI think what is meant is that CloudFlare or no CloudFlare, cat pictures have to be transferred and traffic is generated. imgur will have to pay it either way, even if its CloudFlare doing the delivery.
- linuxydave 13y agoYou don't pay for the bandwidth CF uses (well, I don't know about their most expensive package but with the others you don't) and using a CDN drastically reduces your bandwidth bill
- ddorian43 13y agousing cdn increases your bandwidth bill cause cdn bandwidth is pricier than your dedicated-server/rack/colo bandwidth
- DangerousPie 13y agoCloudflare is free.
- jonknee 13y agoMuch like your cable modem is "unlimited" bandwidth. It's free until it's not. For Imgur it most certainly would not be free.