Comment by Culonavirus
1 year ago
I really hate Clouflare and at the same time love them. Love them for their free, generous 500k req./day pages and workers, hate them for not having spending limits (or at least I can't find them). I get that they probably don't care about individuals and small businesses paying them peanuts, and corps can afford to pay extra if something blows up, but for me it just means I will only use a free account, and they get none of my money.
I also take advantage of their free services and only pay for R2 on Cloudflare since it's the best value managed provider I could find.
I prefer to keep my App's stateless and running in Docker containers which means storing all uploaded files and generated assets in R2 managed storage - which is also used for Litestream backups of our SQLite databases.
Blowouts are minimized when using low cost services, e.g. we had a rogue process that ended up causing 1.5M writes to R2, which only ended up costing us $4.50 in that month.