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Wait I don’t get it. CF is free for your use case, but you are looking for a cheap CDN? What’s cheaper than free?


I’ve got quite a few (very old) downloads coming to my websites, and I don’t want people to lose them. I also want to maintain a no-frills, store-and-forget thing that does not cost much. I was using AWS S3 + CloudFront for a long time, but I realized I was paying over $10 a month for something I didn’t even interact with or check often enough.

I’m OK with a sub-$10/mo budget, but Amazon Web Services doesn’t offer a way to pay recurring charges with Indian Cards. After this thread, I read up a lot yesterday and realized that Amazon AWS India is now pretty well oiled and working. I might stick to it and pay it off in advance. I’d be more than glad to, say, pay off $100 a year and not think about it.

The cost on AWS, I realize, is the S3 storage. Cloudflare is already fronting the CDN aspects of it.

So, I was looking for something with a sweet spot, say, pay something in the lines of $10 a year, at max about $25 a year, and it just dumps all of my files now and, to an extent, in the long term.


They are obviously looking for something to meet there future needs, not there current needs. It is free now, but they might be planning to one day tick over the free thresholds.




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