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Re:Cost of serving billions of images per month by judge2020 on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:23AM (#19831147)
> the levels of bandwidth they're talking about are not going to be free at Cloudflare

Correct. Cloudflare's terms state that you can't serve a disproportionate/substantial amount of non-HTML content, so they would need to sign up for Enterprise with a full contract to get image serving via CF.

Enterprise is generally $5k+/month, but CF contracts can offer a subset of enterprise features from $500-$5k/month, so I would guess ~3k/month just to serve multiple petabytes of images. This doesn't eliminate the bandwidth costs so CF may not be the single solution for the bandwidth costs.

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Re:Cost of serving billions of images per month by odensc on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:34AM (#19831803)
They specifically say they use Imgix's CDN for the images, which can be confirmed by looking at the response headers.

Fastly is used for their actual website, judging by the ASN info. Meaning they wouldn't be serving petabytes of images from CloudFlare, just HTML/CSS/JS, which should be perfectly fine.

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