Re:Cloudflare announced four major new features that could d...
by manigandham on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:30AM
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Cloudflare has always had free bandwidth and you can point the origin to whatever you want, including Backblaze which has free interconnect and cheaper pricing.
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Re:Cloudflare announced four major new features that could d...
by acdha on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:37AM
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> Cloudflare has always had free bandwidth and you can point the origin to whatever you want.
Not completely: if you used a ton of bandwidth (especially non-HTML/JSON) they'd want you to switch to a paid plan.
Using an arbitrary origin server is similarly different, too: that means a lot more traffic coming back to your origin server unless all of your clients are located right next to each other hitting the same edge node. The mechanism they built to do an on-demand copy from S3 to R2 once and serve all subsequent requests from the replicated R2 copy should use substantially less bandwidth and will be faster for all of the requests received from clients which are closer to one of the R2 replicas than your origin server.