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diggan10/10/20244 repliesview on HN

> Cloudflare get the best deals on bandwidth.

If you want to pay for bandwidth then yeah, CloudFlare is a great option.

Otherwise, if you like the experience of not paying per GB/TB, go for a dedicated server with unmetered connection that has the same price every month, regardless.


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rjmunro10/10/2024

Cloudflare don't charge per GB/TB. You get unlimited bandwidth even on their free plan. The problem with paying per GB is that it's in the CDN's interest for you to get a DDOS attack so they can charge you for all the bandwidth. It's in Cloudflare's interest to reduce DDOS attacks and unwanted bot traffic because it costs them bandwidth, not you.

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KomoD10/10/2024

You don't need to pay anything to run TBs through Cloudflare, you could use the free plan.

Rent VPS or managed hosting or host wherever you want, proxy it with Cloudflare on the free plan, Cloudflare caches it.

robertlagrant10/10/2024

It's more like: if you have a website that (sometimes) gets a lot of traffic, do you want Cloudflare to cache it and serve it with very few hits to your cheap server, or do you want your compute costs to expand to cope with the requests?

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pjc5010/11/2024

> If you want to pay for bandwidth then yeah, CloudFlare is a great option.

The free plan is a lot bigger than you think.

> dedicated server with unmetered connection

And where have you found one of those with reasonable pricing?

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