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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by shmoogy »

tiffanyh wrote: post #16

Seems like they could pratically host everything on Cloudflare and save even more money. Asset storage: Backblaze B2 – $11 (replace with Cloudflare R2) Web hosting: Vercel – $20 (replace with Cloudflare Pages, $0 cost) Database: Firestore – $100 (replace with Cloudflare) API: Vultr – $5 Image hosting & optimization: Bunny.net – $27 (replace with Cloudflare) Domains: Cloudflare – $4 Email fees: MXroute – $3

I don't know if cloudflare image will be cheaper than bunnycdn. We migrated from pro to enterprise cloudflare because the imaging api costs basically put us at the price where upgrading gave us a lot of added benefits and cheaper additional costs during our peak seasons.

Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by metadat »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #80
metadat wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: Why is everyone pushing CentralizedFlare pro so hard in this thread?

Cause it solves real issues for dirt cheap.... I mean really cold cache from the above user is at 5000ms that's pretty horrible. When I tried I got 2800ms. Take a look around it seems to be mostly from fetching static content which is a classic problem CDNs solve.

Got it, yeah, web-tier caching is annoying to do yourself. Cheers and thank you kind sir or madam!

Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by oefrha »

metadat wrote: post #77
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I was running www.Photopea.com with 10M page views a month for $40 a year. > Now, I upgraded to $60 a month. I never used any CDN. Why not go back to the $40/month plan and spend $20/month on Cloudflare Pro? I was able to load photopea.com in about 5000ms, uncached. That's not terrible, but it was slow enough that I wondered for a few seconds if the site was broken. A CDN would cut that load time massively, and it…

Honest question: Why is everyone pushing CentralizedFlare pro so hard in this thread?

It happens to be a big bullet point in TFA, so it appears in discussions of TFA, duh.

Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by undefuser »

metadat wrote: post #71
aasasd wrote: post #69

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Please tell more about this ‘MacOS broke Gimp’ thing, because it's the first time I hear of that and I'd like to dodge a firsthand experience.

I used it successfully on my Mac last week. It's still GIMP (bleh!) but it works.

You can consider Affinity Photo

Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by bawolff »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #56
metadat wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I must be missing something, are you able to elaborate on how CentralizedPro Flare for $20 solves the OPs problems? I've accessed plenty of sites physically located in the USA from various EU countries, not to mention AUS and I didn't notice much difference as long as they had a good interconnect. Maybe not the best for YouTube, but there's only a few of those. Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal and fell for CF ear…

Are you referring to the linked article? It literally explains what Cloudflare does for them. Everything might make more sense if you visit their website: https://polyhaven.com/ It's not just a dumb, static file server. EDIT: The questions below are literally explained in the article, so I'm going to give up on this thread.

> Everything might make more sense if you visit their website: https://polyhaven.com/ It's not just a dumb, static file server.

At a glance, it still looks like mostly a highly cached static website + search. Its not exactly a high complexity backend.

Things are always more complex at scale, so there's probably more to it then what appears at first glance, but its not obvious what that is.

Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by encryptluks2 »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #63
willcipriano wrote: post #25

If you are worried about getting your blog post to the top of Reddit or Hacker News (I've never been there myself); you can have a very modest web server or even a pay per request serverless sort of thing and pay $20 real quick to Cloudflare if you happen to get popular. It's the Bart Simpson method of highly scalability[0], for static content you can have global datacenter coverage in a couple minutes or so if you u…

> you can have a very modest web server or even a pay per request serverless sort of thing and pay $20 real quick to Cloudflare if you happen to get popular. I get the impression that a lot of the critics in this thread don't really understand Cloudflare, how cheap it is, or even the concept of CDNs in general. $20/month for Cloudflare Pro is a steal for what you get. Spinning up a dedicated server in a single datace…

Don't you get tht same for free with GitLab Paged and last I checked Cloudflare was free too for caching static HTML assets?

Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by smarx007 »

jason0597 wrote: post #62

I often wonder why so many companies seem to spend tens of thousands of dollars per month on AWS services for their hosting. If most web apps nowadays are just CRUD apps, then why would you need to spend more than €300/month on hosting? All you'd need is data and the website itself, right? I'm currently clicking through various European hosting services and they seem to offer great dedicated servers at good prices. I…

I don't think that most workloads are webapps and many webapps are not just CRUD. HN is not the web either, in case HN formed such a viewpoint for you.

Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

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Post by jjcm »

IvanK_net wrote: post #51

I was running www.Photopea.com with 10M page views a month for $40 a year. Now, I upgraded to $60 a month. I never used any CDN.

Just wanted to say that I’ve been a Photoshop user since 4.0, but in the last year I’ve found myself loading photopea more than loading photoshop. Fantastic product. My main reason is purely the load speed - I can get a basic file up and running far faster. Great work on it - I’m a big fan!
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