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Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by pornel »

eric4smith wrote: post #7

I think the missing piece is proxying from an existing image server source. Say I have hundreds of gigabytes of images "somewhere". How can I start using that with Cloudflare? I think this is great for new stuff, or small projects, but for the larger and older projects, it's a non-starter.

The no-storage version of it already exists: https://developers.cloudflare.com/image-resizing/

but when the "somewhere" is S3, AWS egress costs can easily fund Bezos' next space trip. To fix that, Cloudflare now added cheap storage.

Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by justkez »

eric4smith wrote: post #7

I think the missing piece is proxying from an existing image server source. Say I have hundreds of gigabytes of images "somewhere". How can I start using that with Cloudflare? I think this is great for new stuff, or small projects, but for the larger and older projects, it's a non-starter.

Non-starter because you don't want to migrate the images into Cloudflare? I.e. you want the transformation/caching of some non-CDN images via Cloudflare?

Asking as this could look very attractive (£ wise) for a project with images stored in Uploadcare where it would be feasible for us to do the source-image migration.

Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by Lukas_Skywalker »

pornel wrote: post #9
Lukas_Skywalker wrote: post #8

It would be great if they also allowed reverse proxying images directly. I.e. if I could embed an image like this: For the customers that enabled Cloudflare proxying, they could automatiacally serve a 200x200px variant of the image hosted on my server at /images/logo.png. This would allow to use the feature without needing to upload the images explicitely. For those not using the Cloudflare proxying, the images could…

This is already supported. You create a worker that understands your URL scheme, and requests images via Cloudflare with the desired size/parameters: https://developers.cloudflare.com/image-resizing/resizing-wi... Or, you can just use Cloudflare's built-in URL scheme for resizing arbitrary URLs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/image-resizing/url-format

Indeed. I only read the blog post, where this info is missing. Thank you.

Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by skytreader »

compiotr wrote: post #2

How is this an improvement over existing solutions like imgix?

Incidentally, evaluating an image CDN is my current task at $dayjob. I've been comparing uptimes and, with the caveat that this data is not easy to gather and harder to compare across providers, I just noticed that imgix had twenty-five incidents the past year, mostly "Elevated Rendering Errors". I take it they're a market leader in the image CDN space but that honestly does not inspire confidence in me. Cheaper providers (Imagekit, Sirv) seem to have better reliability.

(Ofc, another caveat is how accurate do they monitor and report, but---short of running customer sentiment analysis---I don't seem to have a choice other than to assume that factor is roughly equal.)

I guess it's a David-to-Goliath comparison but I would just expect Cloudflare to have better reliability than any of them. Plus, as another reply pointed out, brand recognition helps in getting that budget approval.

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Post by deltron3030 »

jonplackett wrote: post #4
compiotr wrote: post #2

How is this an improvement over existing solutions like imgix?

I haven't use imgix but just had a quick look at the docs. It doesn't seem to have the same ability for you to give your users a way to upload their own images in a secure way? If that's the case then that's a big + for Cloudflare. In general though, CF just nail every version of what they do so I'd personally go with their version of it even if it's the same. Is being a cloudflare fanboi a thing yet?

> It doesn't seem to have the same ability for you to give your users a way to upload their own images in a secure way?

This can be handled by a CMS. E.g. Media Cloud, a WordPress plugin that integrates with IMGIX.

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Post by mcherm »

Dah00n wrote: post #19

Cloudflare Images for all customers != Everyone.

I was under the impression that "customer" simply meant any person who makes use of their services.

Are there certain categories of people who CloudFlare refuses to have as customers?

(I know there are SOME -- for example, as a US company CloudFlare is subject to US trade restrictions.)

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