We were charged $10k for the first month of use and immediately reverted the implementation. CF was kind enough to refund us since we're still an early stage co. It would be great if pricing was more reasonable
CF Images always seems like a LOT more $$ than other image hosting tools out there. What other service did you end up going with?
The nearest competitor is likely over 10x more (Caveat: For the workloads I've applied this on).
Also honestly no idea why they never jumped on the NFT bandwagon.
Oh, they're also apparently a tiny team (<50) too, so that probably helps
The website itself was already using cloudflare's CDN. So I added a simple cloudflare URL rule to redirect all requests hitting /images/XXX to the 3rd party image hosting service. Within a month our client's image hosting bill dropped from $~10k/month down to about $90/month, which I felt great about.
I did made one terrible mistake though - I forgot to tell our client about the configuration change. So cue a monday morning panicked phone call from our client when they got their bill, asking what on earth was happening that caused all their web traffic to disappear overnight. They thought (based on the bill) that their website must be broken and they were freaking out about it! Oops!
Are you saying that
1. Originally all requests for images went directly to the egregiously-priced image host
2. You changed that traffic to be routed through Cloudflare instead so it would be cached
3. That reduced requests to your image host enough to cut your bill by 99%
?
We tucked cloudflare in front of the image host using a URL rewrite rule. Cloudflare's cache reduced the number of requests made to the image host by 99% or something.