Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
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Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#2Seems like these announcements were part of Cloudflare's "Birthday Week"[1]
More features that weren't mentioned by OP:
- CF released an email routing feature
- They released their domain name registrar (you could previously only transfer, but now you can also register domain names) using wholesale prices. I'd also classify this as a "disruption" because CF is not taking any profit with this one (but they have a lot to gain in terms of data if you route your domain traffic through them.)
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#3The big question I have regarding R2 (for those no in the lops: Cloudflare's alternative to S3 with no egress fees (!)) is if the terms hold if you choose to use it to host video. If yes, then wow, this truly is disruptive.
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#4Seems like these announcements were part of Cloudflare's "Birthday Week"[1] More features that weren't mentioned by OP: - CF released an email routing feature - They released their domain name registrar (you could previously only transfer, but now you can also register domain names) using wholesale prices. I'd also classify this as a "disruption" because CF is not taking any profit with this one (but they have a lot…
The registrar service has been here for some times, but previously you need to transfer domain in instead of register new domain.
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#5The article's not entirely accurate. It says the storage bandwidth fees are "totally elimiated" but that's not true:
> R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold — currently planned to be in the single digit requests per second range. Above this range, R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers.
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#6Seems like these announcements were part of Cloudflare's "Birthday Week"[1] More features that weren't mentioned by OP: - CF released an email routing feature - They released their domain name registrar (you could previously only transfer, but now you can also register domain names) using wholesale prices. I'd also classify this as a "disruption" because CF is not taking any profit with this one (but they have a lot…
The registrar service has been here for some times, but previously you need to transfer domain in instead of register new domain.
Yep, was aware of this, but forgot to mention it. Edited the comment, thanks!
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#7The article's not entirely accurate. It says the storage bandwidth fees are "totally elimiated" but that's not true: > R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold — currently planned to be in the single digit requests per second range. Above this range, R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers.
That was the top comment on this HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28702997
The reply was: "Per operation charges, even if at the same level as EC2, would still be substantially cheaper."
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#8The big question I have regarding R2 (for those no in the lops: Cloudflare's alternative to S3 with no egress fees (!)) is if the terms hold if you choose to use it to host video. If yes, then wow, this truly is disruptive.
I honestly think it'll get flooded with bad actors and they'll be forced to set limits (e.g. download rate limits, which probably wouldn't be in their best interest since it'd occupy a connection for longer).
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#9The article's not entirely accurate. It says the storage bandwidth fees are "totally elimiated" but that's not true: > R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold — currently planned to be in the single digit requests per second range. Above this range, R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers.
R2's final pricing isn't yet announced, but my understanding of the quoted section is that R2 will charge for storage operations (API calls), what S3 calls "Requests & data retrievals" on their pricing page [0]. But _egress_ (bandwidth) fees, which can be the most costly component of an S3 bill, are totally eliminated.
S3 — Charges for amount of data resident on disk, amount of data retrieved, and each API call
R2 — Charges for amount of data resident on disk and some API calls (over a threshold). No charge for data retrieved.
Re: Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries
#10Author if you are here you have a typo where you say web 2.0 instead of 3.0.
Tried to comment on the article but I guess I need an invite to indie hackers and I don't know anyone :D