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Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by ComodoHacker »

leenyburger wrote: post #55

I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com . It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a custom…

Just FYI, your front page is broken in Firefox with default uBlock Origin settings. Considering potential audience, you might want to fix that. The pricing page is fine.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by sciurus »

josephg wrote: post #149
sciurus wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your post leaves it a little bit unclear what you actually did. Are you saying that 1. Originally all requests for images went directly to the egregiously-priced image host 2. You changed that traffic to be routed through Cloudflare instead so it would be cached 3. That reduced requests to your image host enough to cut your bill by 99% ?

The client was using an image host which supported image transforms. They uploaded all their images there and were using a lot of image transforms from that host on their website. So, HOST/img/123?scale=1.3&color=greyscale type business. They were paying per image loaded from the site. We tucked cloudflare in front of the image host using a URL rewrite rule. Cloudflare's cache reduced the number of requests made to t…

Thanks for confirming! Pretty amazing what some well-placed caching can do.
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