For privacy reasons, it's kept out of Cloudflare's cache. But one could argue that it doesn't matter since traffic is flowing through Cloudflare anyways. What do you think?
It's not a real option. You'll eventually get banned or forced to pay for an enterprise plan if you try to use Cloudflare's CDN for an image hosting site where the origin is outside of Cloudflare. They require you to use R2 or Cloudflare Images.
From their terms: (emphasis mine)
> Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.
Yeah it's going through CF anyway. I also don't live near Europe or North America and noticed even small images take over a second to load, would be nice to have images cached locally after they are opened for the first time
Got it. Thanks for your feedback. All servers and user content are hosted in the EU, so for some parts of the world, it may not perform as intended. I've also thought of creating replicas for latency reasons, but it does introduce extra costs.
