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Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by adamhartenz »

toddmorey wrote: post #37
Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO. I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it…

Wait I don’t get it. CF is free for your use case, but you are looking for a cheap CDN? What’s cheaper than free?

They are obviously looking for something to meet there future needs, not there current needs. It is free now, but they might be planning to one day tick over the free thresholds.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by ozim »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #25
ozim wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare transfer is inflated. I have personal website via CF that there is no way is having transfer amounts they claim there is.

Interesting! Do you have any suspicions as to where Cloudflare’s numbers are coming from?

Reading other comments I might just underestimate amount of crawlers that just scrape everything.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by faizshah »

0x3f wrote: post #31
faizshah wrote: post #26

FYI if you want an s3 + CF analogue setup, b2 is integrated with bunny and allows private buckets: https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-integrate-bunny... I haven’t yet worked out the best cheap VPS/dedicated provider though, project for next weekend.

I feel like I've tried many similar combos and there ends up being some tiny, silly, trivial thing that bothers me in the end. For example, I remember fighting with one of them that forced trailing slashes, and another that didn't allow apex domains (i.e. non-www address) for static sites. I absolutely refuse to actually ship valuable things though so thanks for the suggestion and I'll probably spend some time trying…

I agree, for me it’s my current weekend project to try to figure out a dirt cheap and high performance self hosted cloud for hosting stuff.

So I’m still sticking with Route53 cause it’s the least annoying registrar and DNS api, for CDN I’m going with bunny and for dirt cheap object storage I’m going with b2.

Then the fun part is the actual self hosting: I’m going with Garage for my normal self hosted S3 api (b2 is for backups etc.), Scylla for DDB, Spin for super fast Wasm FaaS…

Then this weekend I got deep into trying to build my cloudwatch alternative I think I’m going with dumping logs with vector into b2 and then using quickwit for searching the logs.

Just a fun homelab challenge really.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by Brajeshwar »

chrismorgan wrote: post #19
Brajeshwar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah Ha! I saw that from this article and signed up. I even did the Card Verify thingy for $30 additional Credit. Will be trying this out and also do a comparison with Cloudflare R2.

> I even did the Card Verify thingy for $30 additional Credit. I hadn’t heard of this, only seen the “14 day free trial” thing, so I checked: the trial gives $20 of credit, and verifying a card gets you $30 more, but it’s all trial credits which expires 14 days after you create your account. In other words, completely useless for people looking to spend under the $1/month minimum. Pity, free for 2½ years sounded good…

Yeah! Saw that. Did some comparison and I don’t think Bunny comes in cheap at the longer run. Cancelled subscription.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by Brajeshwar »

toddmorey wrote: post #37
Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO. I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it…

Wait I don’t get it. CF is free for your use case, but you are looking for a cheap CDN? What’s cheaper than free?

I’ve got quite a few (very old) downloads coming to my websites, and I don’t want people to lose them. I also want to maintain a no-frills, store-and-forget thing that does not cost much. I was using AWS S3 + CloudFront for a long time, but I realized I was paying over $10 a month for something I didn’t even interact with or check often enough.

I’m OK with a sub-$10/mo budget, but Amazon Web Services doesn’t offer a way to pay recurring charges with Indian Cards. After this thread, I read up a lot yesterday and realized that Amazon AWS India is now pretty well oiled and working. I might stick to it and pay it off in advance. I’d be more than glad to, say, pay off $100 a year and not think about it.

The cost on AWS, I realize, is the S3 storage. Cloudflare is already fronting the CDN aspects of it.

So, I was looking for something with a sweet spot, say, pay something in the lines of $10 a year, at max about $25 a year, and it just dumps all of my files now and, to an extent, in the long term.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by hexbin010 »

miyuru wrote: post #7
Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO. I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it…

AWS CloudFront is free up to 1TB bandwidth and 10 million HTTP/HTTPS requests per month. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer...

That's old info. They free tier is now 100GB and 1M requests

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by miyuru »

hexbin010 wrote: post #47
miyuru wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AWS CloudFront is free up to 1TB bandwidth and 10 million HTTP/HTTPS requests per month. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer...

That's old info. They free tier is now 100GB and 1M requests https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

PAYG still has the same free limits.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/pay-as-you-go/

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by hexbin010 »

miyuru wrote: post #48
hexbin010 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's old info. They free tier is now 100GB and 1M requests https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

PAYG still has the same free limits. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/pay-as-you-go/

Ahh clear as mud haha. Thanks
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