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Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?

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Re: Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?

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Post by SomaticPirate »

Cloudflare support being terrible and non-helpful? Say it aint so /s

Seriously though, it feels like support exists as a hurdle to get to engineering. I have never had a serious issue that was resolved by support. I miss when customer engineers or customer support actually was treated like a value add part of the business.

Re: Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?

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Post by Scaevolus »

I clicked assuming this was analyzing how hilariously expensive Images is compared to most of their offerings, but it's about how hilariously bad Images' payment structure is. Nice!

> It’s likely that we will replace Cloudflare Images in the long run. Looking at storage costs alone, S3 would be 4 times less expensive for our use-case.

Cloudflare R2 would likely be a good choice too, if you're willing to bet that the (inevitable?) shakedown for money once you find the limits of "unlimited egress with no fees" won't be too bad.

Re: Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?

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Post by localfirst »

Scaevolus wrote: post #6

I clicked assuming this was analyzing how hilariously expensive Images is compared to most of their offerings, but it's about how hilariously bad Images' payment structure is. Nice! > It’s likely that we will replace Cloudflare Images in the long run. Looking at storage costs alone, S3 would be 4 times less expensive for our use-case. Cloudflare R2 would likely be a good choice too, if you're willing to bet that the…

R2 is still more expensive than other solutions

I recommend idrive

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