Re: Boost downloads and JFrog

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-01-09 11:34:51

On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 10:33 AM Phil Endecott wrote:

> 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!
>

Thanks Phil. When I had looked into Cloudflare the estimate was more
expensive than Fastly, but maybe I missed something. I'll double check with
them to be sure.

Glen