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Re:We Need to Talk About Vercel by Atlas22 on Monday April 10, 2023 @12:42AM (#35509247)
The free version of cloudflare is essentially a "fair-use" offering, meaning that it is free until they decide its no longer free for you at their sole discretion [0]. Their terms of service prohibits distribution of any "disproportionate percentage" of non-HTML content [1]. That includes most of what you would want a CDN for: video, images, audio, binaries.

They have exercised this discretion repeatedly for significant bandwidth users, usually in the form of "You need to upgrade to the enterprise plan or we will terminate services for your site." One of my sites got the enterprise "offer" after serving single digit TB in a month. Running on a real CDN from the start would have been cheaper than inevitably getting extorted to a large <contact sales> price for <contract term> or terminated with little to no time to migrate things.

[0] Section 2.6 https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ [1] Section 2.8 https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

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Re:We Need to Talk About Vercel by wahnfrieden on Monday April 10, 2023 @11:20AM (#35513377)
Free version also has some awful gaps in global coverage
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Re:We Need to Talk About Vercel by jacooper on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:45PM (#35517772)
Then use R2, which can be used for everything with no usage limits as you are going to pay for your usage anyway.
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Re:We Need to Talk About Vercel by BFLpL0QNek on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:28PM (#35519572)
To use R2 you’d need to host images/assets separately on their own domain rather than just put a CDN infront of your entire site and forget about it. Putting assets on their own domain isn’t uncommon but for some stuff it can be a big inconvenience with build pipelines/software support.

I’m not sure on R2 specifics but I remember when I wanted vanity names on Cloudflare I.e assets.example.com it was not possible unless you give Cloudflare control over your entire domain, dropping your current nameservers or sign up for an enterprise plan for cname support.

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Re:We Need to Talk About Vercel by jacooper on Monday April 10, 2023 @11:21PM (#35520370)
I mean you are going to do that anyway to use bunny. And you are right, they need the domain to be on their nameservers.
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