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Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by simonmales »

compiotr wrote: post #2

How is this an improvement over existing solutions like imgix?

Technically, no idea.

Coming from an enterprise getting approval to use a new SaaS vendor is painful.

But if a existing vendor has new product offering, you skip a lot of painful TPS style application forms.

Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by jonplackett »

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?

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Post by kiza »

> $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

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Post by eric4smith »

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.

Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by Lukas_Skywalker »

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 be embedded using something like this:

https://imageproxy.cloudflare.com/mysite.com/images/logo.png...">

Re: Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

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Post by pornel »

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

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