Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

Re:Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a ... by PaywallBuster on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:13AM (#26063459)

I have two domains with millions of requests a month and hundreads of GB of bandwidth, both of them work quite well even in free mode.

However today and few days ago too it seems requests going through Cloudflare are just timing out. So we finally move to paid plan

We're monitoring both endpoints (CF and the origin)

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Re:Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a ... by jgrahamc on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:16AM (#26063482)

Have you talked to support about this problem?

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Re:Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a ... by PaywallBuster on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:50AM (#26063762)

Not yet, but easier to contact support once you get the subscription.

So that's another reason to subscribe since it's 20$ month. (AWS and other SaaS cost us an order of magnitude more)

Any case, what I meant to say, is that free plan works fairly well even at higher volumes.

If you expect more reliability, should definitely subscribe.

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Re:Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a ... by jonathan920 on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:29AM (#26066610)

Do keep us updated, I also upgraded but i really dont know what benefits are there to pro plan, tried it before felt no difference.

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Re:Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a ... by PaywallBuster on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:21PM (#26067374)

For now I'd say

the advanced cache statistics (will help us reduce traffic sent to the S3 origin, in one case, and reduce bandwidth cost)

Traffic is served from the closest location to the user (instead of the bigger central locations, where they can serve traffic cheaper)

Plus paid suppport, for sure

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