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Alternatively, just use Cloudflare.



We've been using CloudFlare for two weeks now for an image serving site. It saves us about 1.5tb in traffic per day.

I still don't understand how they can offer this for free; I'd be happy to pay them a few hundred USD per month - it would still be a lot cheaper than AWS or any other cloud hoster out there.


> I still don't understand how they can offer this for free

You allow the following:

- Add tracking codes or affiliate codes to links that do not previously have tracking or affiliate codes.

- Add script to your pages to, for example, add services or perform additional performance tracking.


We only enabled CloudFlare for two of our subdomains. These subdomains only serve images, no HTML or script files.

So I guess we're circumventing their monetization model and will be kicked anytime now?!


You certainly won't be kicked off CloudFlare and I don't know what the parent is talking about. CloudFlare doesn't modify your pages to make money for itself. It makes money by people paying for premium services.


> I don't know what the parent is talking about.

I'm talking about the ToS for cloudflare. I don't know whether they modify the pages to make money or not, but they make it clear it is a possibility.


That section of the ToS begins: "Depending on the features you select, CloudFlare may modify the content of your site." The examples listed are things that you control, by default it doesn't modify the page.


I see, thanks. Might be worth stating it explicitly ("we won't modify the content unless you allow us to").


I'm very curious to hear about this. I'm planning to use on a static content only domain and I couldn't find any info if that's ok.


Yes, that's just fine.


Those types of modifications you mentioned happen only if you OPT-IN by manually enabling the Viglink app. It's entirely up to the site owner though.


Or Fastly.


They’re not free. Just enabling SSL costs 500$ for setup and then 100$/mo (compare to 20$/mo for Cloudflare). And they charge for bandwidth and requests.




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