Re:Image hoster pushes 1.8 PB per month through Cloudflare CDN
by derefr on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:26PM
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> Cloudflare is made for a site that serves up web pages with some content like your logo, a few images, etc.
For an interesting counter-example: 4chan (including its image-CDN subdomain!) is served through CloudFlare. It seems that CloudFlare really is willing to host and distribute multiple petabytes of image content per month, as long as it's for the sake of something else (e.g. pages of threaded conversation) that's not an "online storage space."
Though, I think in 4chan's case it might also help that pages and their image resources both get expired off of the site quite quickly. You can create a page that hotlinks image URLs from 4chan's CDN subdomain, but the correspondent resources at those URLs won't be there five hours later, so there's little point to doing so. Unlike most image-hosts one could name.
For an interesting counter-example: 4chan (including its image-CDN subdomain!) is served through CloudFlare. It seems that CloudFlare really is willing to host and distribute multiple petabytes of image content per month, as long as it's for the sake of something else (e.g. pages of threaded conversation) that's not an "online storage space."
Though, I think in 4chan's case it might also help that pages and their image resources both get expired off of the site quite quickly. You can create a page that hotlinks image URLs from 4chan's CDN subdomain, but the correspondent resources at those URLs won't be there five hours later, so there's little point to doing so. Unlike most image-hosts one could name.