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But I have to ask, if you're doing 300TB a month how are you not able to afford $3000 for CF?
What are you doing with that much data that it doesn't generate enough value to be worth a few thousand per month?
Maybe CF could have given you a heads up sooner and communicated more clearly from the start. Part of the issue might be that they're making the assumption that their customers (generally more tech savvy) are aware of the value of bandwidth at that volume.
I remember an article here about someone optimizing their cloudflare setup with something else and sending tons of data through some peering agreement. Its 2am and I don’t remember the details. Anyone else remember seeing that?
Are you serving files other then html/images/css, etc? 300tb is a lot, AWS cloudfront would be charging ~$6000/month by a quick estimate. Recognize they were probably taking a loss with your business, I'm surprised you didn't discuss how much bandwidth you were expecting when you agreed to the contract, sounds like a miscommunication.
How are you chucking that much data while still being concerned about cheap? I can’t really suggest anything useful technologically without knowing what the data is
Don’t knee jerk change supplier because you’re annoyed haha, you’re unlikely to get cheaper and kinda likely to get less reliable - that’s on you to justify later to the person asking why your 300TB/mo pipeline broke, not something I’d want to explain without having thought through the initial reaction properly!
At least discuss it with someone first, who knows maybe 3 grand a month isn’t that big an expense considering it’s probably something the company needs to operate. Having a “top level” executive layer implies much more budget elsewhere, it can’t be that big an expense. Maybe they can get rid of a lower level exec to pay for it. Or maybe you don’t need all of the outgoing data. Can’t really guess anything without knowing the situation better
Operating in an annoyed bubble is almost guaranteed to be way more stress down the road though in any case, get a fresh mind on it
BunnyCDN, Beluga, and KeyCDN seem to have pretty decent pricing. If you want another free CDN, you could consider DDOS-Guard albeit with some caution. If you can list a budget, type of content, and/or required features, I can provide a better recommendation. In the meantime, you can sift through the following websites: https://www.cdnperf.com/ https://cdncomparison.com/ https://www.cdnplanet.com
That being said, it's definitely a budget option. Their admin dashboard, features, PoP count, advanced functionality, etc. is certainly a cut below that of Cloudflare. No HTTP3 support, no brotli compression, stuff like that as well.
Also, they had a configuration issue last night where the certificate for all of y sites was expired for ~3 hours. They fixed it and to be clear it's never happened before, but yeah that kind of thing is probably not going to happen with Cloudflare.
BunnyCDN, Beluga, and KeyCDN seem to have pretty decent pricing. If you want another free CDN, you could consider DDOS-Guard albeit with some caution. If you can list a budget, type of content, and/or required features, I can provide a better recommendation. In the meantime, you can sift through the following websites: https://www.cdnperf.com/ https://cdncomparison.com/ https://www.cdnplanet.com
I use bunny.net for my personal websites. I'm largely quite happy with it; it's definitely a great budget option and is very easy to set up. That being said, it's definitely a budget option. Their admin dashboard, features, PoP count, advanced functionality, etc. is certainly a cut below that of Cloudflare. No HTTP3 support, no brotli compression, stuff like that as well. Also, they had a configuration issue last nig…