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I am not saying not to trust the word of the CEO, but this exact use case of using cloudflare as a image hosting comes up a lot on HN.

The word on the street is that they will start throttling and contacting you once you hit several hundred TB per month. [1][2][3][4][5][6]

Of course this is still extremely generous and the upgrade plans are usually still several orders of magnitude cheaper than any cloud provider per gb. But don't build a business or hobby project around cf providing unlimited free bandwidth forever.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139191

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368684

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13580113

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826389

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5214480

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829740

(basically search HN for cloudflare + non-html)



To be fair, I was expecting to be contacted for this unlimited service way way waaay before hundreds of TB per month.




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