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Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

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Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A great first step would be to take responsibility for what the customer has proven to happen. "It is definitively not the case that doing" is directly at odds with what the author provides, you might want to reframe your message to "it shouldn't be like this but unfortunately it is like this right now, sorry" rather than dismissing the author with that they are not correct.

You shouldn't assume that he is correct either; i'm a free plan user and have never experienced this

If you're on free plan you have no way to know if this has happened to your website.

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#23

what a load of horseshit, this is my free plan 30 day stats, 2 order magnitude more request, a order magnitude less cache hits, no request limit in sight https://i.imgur.com/UOlW836.png edit: changed bull crap to the more appropriate horseshit in response to this unsubstantiated-bordering-conspiracy blog post, because if the former is already enough to triggers the community downvoting brigades, no point in showing a…

I guess there is a gamble/risk

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#24
post #3

I am talking internally with the customer support team about what happened to this customer's traffic. It is definitively not the case that doing "four requests per minute" gets you rate limited.

While we are on the subject of rate limiting and such, does Cloudflare allow using its service for serving video files for a media heavy social media app where we store the videos on Backblaze B2?

I’m working on such an app, and am hoping to use Cloudflare + Backblaze B2, because of the bandwidth alliance. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/bandwidth-alliance/

However, the Terms of Service say:

> 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

> The Services are offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Services solely for the purpose of (i) serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications, including rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents, and (ii) serving web APIs subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.8. Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service. If we determine you have breached this Section 2.8, we may immediately suspend or restrict your use of the Services, or limit End User access to certain of your resources through the Services.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/terms/

And I am wondering what kind of subscription would be appropriate for my use-case if any, that would allow me to host the files on Backblaze B2, and serve these files through Cloudflare.

(Cloudflare would also be hosting our API, so it’s not just video files that we want to serve via Cloudflare.)

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#25
I have two domains with millions of requests a month and hundreads of GB of bandwidth, both of them work quite well even in free mode.

However today and few days ago too it seems requests going through Cloudflare are just timing out. So we finally move to paid plan

We're monitoring both endpoints (CF and the origin)

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#26
post #3

I am talking internally with the customer support team about what happened to this customer's traffic. It is definitively not the case that doing "four requests per minute" gets you rate limited.

A great first step would be to take responsibility for what the customer has proven to happen. "It is definitively not the case that doing" is directly at odds with what the author provides, you might want to reframe your message to "it shouldn't be like this but unfortunately it is like this right now, sorry" rather than dismissing the author with that they are not correct.

I am taking responsibility for what the customer is reporting here.

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#27

what a load of horseshit, this is my free plan 30 day stats, 2 order magnitude more request, a order magnitude less cache hits, no request limit in sight https://i.imgur.com/UOlW836.png edit: changed bull crap to the more appropriate horseshit in response to this unsubstantiated-bordering-conspiracy blog post, because if the former is already enough to triggers the community downvoting brigades, no point in showing a…

Probably similar to AWS/GCP's grey listing systems, which increase quotas slowly over time.

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#28

I have two domains with millions of requests a month and hundreads of GB of bandwidth, both of them work quite well even in free mode. However today and few days ago too it seems requests going through Cloudflare are just timing out. So we finally move to paid plan We're monitoring both endpoints (CF and the origin)

Have you talked to support about this problem?

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#29
Today there was a topic on HN about customers who complain about limiting free tiers. That’s a great example of it, especially from someone who provides paid SaaS product.

Free tier is awesome for small websites, keeping domains and many other things. But if you run business who earns, then just pay for that god damn thing, and stop ranting. :-)

Re: Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

#30

what a load of horseshit, this is my free plan 30 day stats, 2 order magnitude more request, a order magnitude less cache hits, no request limit in sight https://i.imgur.com/UOlW836.png edit: changed bull crap to the more appropriate horseshit in response to this unsubstantiated-bordering-conspiracy blog post, because if the former is already enough to triggers the community downvoting brigades, no point in showing a…

I guess there is a gamble/risk

my money is on "there's some piece of this guy stack that's causing cf servers to timeout on reads"
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