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I'd also add: "Competition: It doesn't hurt that an awesome free tier makes it much harder for others to break into the market." ;)
– TBB
Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 14:25
Matthew, I'm considering using CF free tier for a site I'm collaborating with a couple other people on. They're using Google Cloud Platform for a small site that users frequently download the same couple 1-2GB .mp4 files from (no, it's not a porn/pirating/etc site). The issue is that the GCP egress charges for those files end up being way more than the rest of the server costs. If CF free tier can support these files, I could reduce their server costs by probably 75% -- but I don't want to accidentally break your TOS by using too much bandwidth. Can you weigh in on this situation? Thanks!
– forresthopkinsa
Commented Nov 26, 2019 at 21:39
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@forresthopkinsa The best thing you can do for videos is to host them via a specialized service like YouTube, Vimeo or even CloudFlare's (paid) white label service, since you don't have to wory about video codecs, resolutions, bitrate, players etc. If you really need static file hosting than DigitalOcean's S3 compatible object storage with built-in CDN should be very competitive at 1 cent per GB and 1 TB traffic / 250 GB storage included in the 5 $ minimum monthly charge.
– felixbuenemann
Commented Apr 27, 2020 at 16:57
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I joined this community just to upvote this post.
– Suragch
Commented Feb 28, 2021 at 8:19
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Wow, interesting. Not a single point sounded like corporate BS.
– Dojo
Commented May 14, 2021 at 6:02

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