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> $1 per 100,000 delivered images Breakdown of delivery costs based on your image sizes: Image size | Total bandwidth used | Effective cost per GB 10MB = 1000GB = $0.001 per GB 5MB = 500GB = $0.002 per GB 1MB = 100GB = $0.01 per GB 200KB = 20GB = $0.05 per GB 50KB = 5GB = $0.2 per GB
Typo on the last one, should be: 50KB = 5GB = $0.20 per GB Which would make you want to break out the old school spriting tools :) I guess don't serve thumbnail galleries from CF.
Bunny.net has an alternative: https://bunny.net/optimizer/ It's probably cheaper in some cases.
Bunny seems like a very nice product. I've never used them, but my perception of them is very positive, for some reason.
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.)
As you mentioned, anyone on one of the various US sanction lists. Additionally, anything illegal under US law (particularly CSAM, warez and other kinds of piracy), as well as terrorist/violent content (as the "Islamic State", 8chan, Daily Stormer and a select few others found out the hard way).
Very cool. Waiting for a version for Video with embeddable widget for uploading.
https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
How is this an improvement over existing solutions like imgix?
10MB max per image seems extremely low for 2021.
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/page-weight#image-by...
A 10MB limit per image seems like it will cover everything but outliers.
I’m loving it. Cloudflare is a good and reliable service provider, I expect it to expand their cloud offerings in the future like drop-in S3 replacement, application logging, etc…
Seems like they are happy with the zero bandwidth alliance for companies like Backblaze to cover that.
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 prov…
The reliability isn't great though. "Elevated Rendering Errors" almost always is "increased errors rendering uncached derivative images". Basically any image variant - by file and transformation/dimension parameters - that hasn't been viewed recently won't load. So a srcset homepage hero image probably has all size variations a user might see in Imgix's cache, and will render. But on less-traveled parts of our site, photos generally won't load. We're a rather image-heavy site and it's pretty debilitating to the UX when this happens, so it's frustrating that this happens more than the "almost never" rate we'd wish for. FWIW, we've never noticed problems on their end that aren't closely followed by an incident report in their status page, so they're not under-reporting at least.
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