Comment by BenjiWiebe

Comment by BenjiWiebe 3 days ago

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"everyone knows" that unlimited basically anything has limits.

I'd be shocked if CF actually allowed you to use a couple hundred PB/month for free. And that's still finite!!

michaelt 3 days ago

> "everyone knows" that unlimited basically anything has limits.

Right. But the answer to the question posed in the title - "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?" - is that the bandwidth is not, in fact, unlimited.

At the start of this thread, i_have_an_idea said "The reason it's free and with unlimited bandwidth is that it's not" I think they, you, and I all agree on that.

What I don't understand is the other people in this thread, who seem to take cloudflare's marketing puffery at face value.

  • ignoramous 3 days ago

    > What I don't understand is the other people in this thread

    OP said, "Unless you stay very small ... you'll realize the service is neither unlimited nor free" ... is what I commented on.

    • michaelt 3 days ago

      Yeah, to be fair the 60TB/month of outbound traffic you mention would cost ~$4800/month if you were doing it via AWS cloudfront. Cloudflare's free tier is pretty generous if they're providing that for $0.