On: Upcoming price increases for Cloud Storage

[rektide]

Hot on the heels of CloudFlare raising prices 25% (and offering an annual plan to drop prices back down). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33795808 https://blog.cloudflare.com/adjusting-pricing-introducing-an...

[tebbers → rektide]

Cloudflare is ludicrously good value for money, even on the $25 a month plan. Even on the free plan you get a huge amount for $0.

[simfree → tebbers]

Note that Cloudflare is cracking down on heavy caching, its an Article 10 violation. If they see you using terabytes of bandwidth a week (especially if your end users are in expensive regions like New Zealand or Australia) they will suspend your site: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-way-you-handle-bandwi...

[dhdgrygev → rektide]

However, using Cloudflare R2 to distribute content is still thousands of times cheaper than GCP.