Re: Boost downloads and JFrog

From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-01-08 15:33:34

Glen Fernandes wrote:
> Rather than emails and  Slack DMs, I would prefer we have this discussion
> on the mailing list.
>
> To summarize what I have repeated in the aforementioned channels:
>
> - Yes, our downloads are not working again because the JFrog account is
> again not active.
> - No, I cannot do anything about the JFrog account.
> - Yes, we can update the website to point to downloads hosted elsewhere.
>
> It is correct that JFrog does not charge us yet but our traffic has
> increased from 60TB/month to almost 200TB/month which is no longer
> supportable for free. We have limited time to find a solution.
>
> We are on borrowed time but as far as I know we still have time. the
> deactivation of the JFrog account in December 31 was not expected, and it
> was reinstated.

Hi Glen,

I have recently been using Cloudflare R2 to serve low-cost high-bandwidth
downloads. https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/

Pricing is:

* Domain registration (required; for non-obvious reasons you need to use
   a new domain hosted by them): approx $10/year.

* Storage: $0.015 per GB-month.

* HTTP GET operations: $0.36 per million operations.

* Egress Bandwidth: free!

With smaller providers, I would assume that "free bandwidth" probably means
"free until we decide you're using too much". But in the case of Cloudflare,
my impression is that they are huge enough that even Boost's 200 
TB/month might
be only a drop in the ocean. If any other readers have experience or opinions
about that, I'd be interested to hear from you!

Regards, Phil.