[cube2222]

CloudFlare pricing is indeed positively ridiculous.

At OpenTofu[0] we’re using CloudFlare R2 to host the providers and modules registry[1]. Bandwidth is free, you only pay for requests.

This already would be great, but there’s more - you only pay for requests that actually hit R2. So with an almost 100% cache hit ratio, we barely register any billable requests.

Recently someone decided to load test us and generated ~1TB of traffic over 1-3 days. All but a few of these requests were cached, so the whole situation probably cost us less than a cent.

[0]: https://opentofu.org

[1]: https://github.com/opentofu/registry

[EE84M3i]

Is this in line with the TOS? I thought there were restrictions on serving non-website content in the free tier, or does that not apply to the CDN if you're using R2 as an origin?

[adobrawy]

They updated TOS to enable proxing R2 via CDN with cache enabled: https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos

[ignoramous]

> R2 as an origin

We front our distribution service with Cloudflare Workers fronting R2 fronting S3 / Lightsail Object Store (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-r2-super-slurper/). That brought our costs down from $500 to $2 serving the same amount of traffic.