IIRC regular cloudflare will still cache assets for free. This tool is specifically for people who don't want to write a pipeline to do image resizing/optimization themselves. If you're able to write your own pipeline to do sprite sheets, you probably don't need this service to begin with. Just preprocess everything yourself and serve those at $0 per gb.
Yes, that makes sense. But it is interesting that this product becomes crazy expensive as the image size gets smaller. $1 per 100,000 served images is a weird pricing model unless you're serving exclusively large images.
This is true but remember, we also have volume pricing. If you're storing tens of millions of images or delivering hundreds of millions of images, talk to us :)
Hm.. the 'Do I get charged for creating and storing variants?' FAQ certainly is, but I was actually looking at the top one 'How much does Cloudflare Images cost?' which is a bit ambiguous:
> Cloudflare Images costs $5 per month per 100,000 stored images and $1 per 100,000 delivered images. Storage must be purchased in advance in blocks of 100,000 images.
> You only pay for original images; not variants. If you have one million original images and define five variants, you would only pay $50 per month for storing your one million original images.
On my first reading I took that to be general, but then the example is about storage... I think you're probably right, I was thinking each served image (or variant) would only be charged once per payment period (because they can cache aggressively) but that'd be really cheap, depending on usage.
I for example found a 35 m^2 apartment in Espoo that's 542 €/month. I rented a similar size apartment in Espoo from a private company for about 800 €/month some years back. The safety deposit is also 0 €. My apartment had a very cheap safety deposit - 200 €, but that is probably too much if you're homeless. Some might charge way more, like two months worth of rent, which would've been 1600 € for me.
They also ignore payment deliquencies, which make it very hard to find an apartment on the free market.
Finnish social welfare includes free medical/dental care and drugs. The social welfare and housing support total about 1200€ / month. So after bills, they have between 400-700€ / month for food, clothing etc. It's not anything fancy, but it will keep you off the streets, begging.
And it's a very tenuous dream at that, I'd say. It requires constant handholding, upkeep, juggling, whatever you want to call it, to manage all of the visas, plane tickets, bookings, finding remote work, finding a network of people for which reason you allegedly moved to the country :)
Call me square but it's much easier to just overpay for rent in the USA and just focus on building "bulletproof" skills for a long career here.
After all, nobody stands up postgres on EC2 anymore right, we all just use redshift and lambdas? right? ok well maybe not all of us :)
This project was originally a peer to peer transfer tool but between legal worries and the lack of monetisation options I never had enough time and motivation to put in the work that was needed to make it great.
Instead I decided to host a curated list of the best file transfer tools instead to help others.
I've been building a list[1] of file transfer tools with their perks, there's a few new ones from this thread that I will add.
I used to run a transfer service myself but it wasn't up to scratch with the competition and it was costing me money so I decided to aggregate them instead.
Breakdown of delivery costs based on your image sizes:
Image size | Total bandwidth used | Effective cost per GB
10MB = 1000GB = $0.001 per GB
5MB = 500GB = $0.002 per GB
1MB = 100GB = $0.01 per GB
200KB = 20GB = $0.05 per GB
50KB = 5GB = $0.2 per GB