The main point of this article is to use a Cloudflare cache-everything rule and use that caching to create a free image host. From the article:
> I'd heavily recommend adding a page-rule to set the "cache level" to "everything", and "edge cache TTL" to a higher value like 7 days if your files aren't often changing.
I am not saying not to trust the word of the CEO, but this exact use case of using cloudflare as a image hosting comes up a lot on HN.
The word on the street is that they will start throttling and contacting you once you hit several hundred TB per month. [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Of course this is still extremely generous and the upgrade plans are usually still several orders of magnitude cheaper than any cloud provider per gb. But don't build a business or hobby project around cf providing unlimited free bandwidth forever.
Not only do things change but CF has hundreds of employees that weren't CC'd on that informal permission so there's still a high chance of being inconvenienced, and there's a decent chance the CEO won't be at your disposable should a problem occur.
Should CloudFlare later ban you for the practice, will the random support person you reach unpack the CEO's comments here and ensure nothing changed internally that prevents allowing your continued use and advocate restoring your account for you?
It’s not so different from when your company provides a perk that you expect not to see again.
If the perk saves you money, you put that money in savings. Once your budget expands to depend on that perk you are trapped, and when it goes away the pain will be noteworthy.
In words that are more applicable to a business case: You have to have a strategy for when the Too Good To Be True situation ends, because it will, and you have less control over when than you think you do.
Thanks for engaging directly with the community!
So this wouldn't be allowed if he didn't use workers to make a redirect?
Hey Matthew! It's a darn cool project!
Workers are being used to do some URL rewriting.
The main point of this article is to use a Cloudflare cache-everything rule and use that caching to create a free image host. From the article:
> I'd heavily recommend adding a page-rule to set the "cache level" to "everything", and "edge cache TTL" to a higher value like 7 days if your files aren't often changing.
The guy you replied to is the CEO of cloudflare. If he says it's OK then I'm pretty sure it's OK!
^—- what he said.
In that case, thanks for the blessing. :)
I am not saying not to trust the word of the CEO, but this exact use case of using cloudflare as a image hosting comes up a lot on HN.
The word on the street is that they will start throttling and contacting you once you hit several hundred TB per month. [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Of course this is still extremely generous and the upgrade plans are usually still several orders of magnitude cheaper than any cloud provider per gb. But don't build a business or hobby project around cf providing unlimited free bandwidth forever.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139191
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368684
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13580113
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826389
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5214480
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829740
(basically search HN for cloudflare + non-html)
To be fair, I was expecting to be contacted for this unlimited service way way waaay before hundreds of TB per month.
He might be the CEO but things change after an IPO. I hope Cloudflare stays great. I love their service.
Not only do things change but CF has hundreds of employees that weren't CC'd on that informal permission so there's still a high chance of being inconvenienced, and there's a decent chance the CEO won't be at your disposable should a problem occur.
Should CloudFlare later ban you for the practice, will the random support person you reach unpack the CEO's comments here and ensure nothing changed internally that prevents allowing your continued use and advocate restoring your account for you?
It’s not so different from when your company provides a perk that you expect not to see again.
If the perk saves you money, you put that money in savings. Once your budget expands to depend on that perk you are trapped, and when it goes away the pain will be noteworthy.
In words that are more applicable to a business case: You have to have a strategy for when the Too Good To Be True situation ends, because it will, and you have less control over when than you think you do.