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Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
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#12> Privacy
> Bandwidth Saver respects your privacy and your visitors’ privacy: Does not track visitors...Does not collect analytics
Wouldn't this cause a site's visitors to send traffic to cloudflare in situations where they wouldn't otherwise, allowing cloudflare to log their IP, timestamp, and the image requested, along with any other data in the request header? If this plugin wasn't used on the site cloudflare wouldn't get/log/track any of that. I'm not sure that handing all that data over to a third party (especially one as large and centralized as cloudflare) is compatible with respecting visitor's privacy. At the very least, site owners should be made aware of the fact that this is data will end up being shared.
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#13I loved the FAQ question "What happens if cloudflare is down?"... Well, the short answer is it takes down 75% of the internet with it; you mean like 3 days ago for the whole day? well, there is always going outside and going bowling with your friends for a few hours until it comes back online, then the internet resumes function at that time.
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#14You might want to put a cap on the $2.99/m plan, otherwise one huge site could wipe you out. If you do, I'd express that in terms that most small Wordpress sites will understand (like unique viewers, page hits, etc). I think some here will say "why not just use Cloudflare directly", but I disagree, I think this plugin makes sense. Cloudflare is relatively straightforward for technical users, but many Wordpress users…
Yes, this plugin is aimed at the long tail and I need to be clear on a fair use policy. The idea behind the self host worker is that I can provide white glove migration if any site becomes burdensome without disrupting the service altogether.
And I agree, if a site is behind Cloudflare DNS this plugin does not make much sense, but it's a solution for many non-technical users, as you mentioned.
Re: Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
#15You might want to put a cap on the $2.99/m plan, otherwise one huge site could wipe you out. If you do, I'd express that in terms that most small Wordpress sites will understand (like unique viewers, page hits, etc). I think some here will say "why not just use Cloudflare directly", but I disagree, I think this plugin makes sense. Cloudflare is relatively straightforward for technical users, but many Wordpress users…
Yeah, raise your base price too imho. At least $5
Will do, had to make it interesting for launch :)
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I'm listening.
Re: Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
#17I loved the FAQ question "What happens if cloudflare is down?"... Well, the short answer is it takes down 75% of the internet with it; you mean like 3 days ago for the whole day? well, there is always going outside and going bowling with your friends for a few hours until it comes back online, then the internet resumes function at that time.
True true, maybe I should update it to “go outside and touch some grass.”
Re: Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
#18> Privacy > Bandwidth Saver respects your privacy and your visitors’ privacy: Does not track visitors...Does not collect analytics Wouldn't this cause a site's visitors to send traffic to cloudflare in situations where they wouldn't otherwise, allowing cloudflare to log their IP, timestamp, and the image requested, along with any other data in the request header? If this plugin wasn't used on the site cloudflare woul…
This is true, I still try to be clear about that:
"External Services
This plugin connects to external services to deliver images:
Cloudflare R2 & Workers
Purpose: Stores and serves cached images from 300+ global locations Provider: Cloudflare, Inc. Terms: cloudflare.com/terms Privacy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy"
Re: Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
#19Cloudflare has their own image optimization and caching service, would be a good alternative: https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/transform-images/ I wrote a basic plugin for Jekyll to automatically prefix my images with this. Pretty much just set it and forget it: https://github.com/catskull/catskull.github.io/blob/master/_... Am I missing something or is this way harder to do in Wordpress?
The idea here is that WordPress will still host and transform the images (could have many stacked plugins as a pipeline) but the plugin will rewrite the final image's URL to be served by Cloudflare. So you can benefit of whatever pipeline you have in the server, and let the plugin use cloudflare at the edge.
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#20Great idea and definitely love the aspec of bringing your own worker. But technically would it be better to have the plugin to any transformation and then have just cloudflare in front of the website raking care of all caching ? (I thought they even provide a WordPress plugin for that). Also careful with hosting other people content under your domain/service under your name especially with CSAM stuff and other illega…
Hi, yes. Jetpack has a plugin for CDN but it's very limited I actually had the experience of having to turn off that plugin because the shared URL was reported as a malicious website, and without notice raked up a bill of over $9k for AWS bandwidth costs.
The idea here is to make it actually work at a level of service that Jetpack can't or won't. Yes, in the managed service I'll have to take that into account.