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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by bauruine on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:42PM (#42716645)
If you send 10Gbit/s to an ISP you have to pay for transit to reach it. But if you send 100Gbit/s+ the ISP suddenly is willing to not only peer for free with you but may even host the servers for you in their data center for free. [0][1][2] So yes being bigger can absolutely save you costs.

[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/peering-portal/

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

[2]: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en

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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by tomnipotent on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:23PM (#42719254)
Don't forget about the Bandwidth Alliance, which is agreements for free or cheap egress between peers.

https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:56PM (#42720515)
Can't you just send random generated packets. Or by requesting content from other hosting provider with free or cheap egress. Or sending to another hosting provider.
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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by gr3ml1n on Thursday January 16, 2025 @01:21AM (#42721986)
Sending random packets at another AS just results in your traffic being blocked. The network engineers running these systems are smart, and the community is surprisingly small.
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