I have noticed our site’s S3 image service bandwidth (transfer) costs keep going up and up. The pricing is $.09/GB and that can add up pretty fast.. I assume I am not the only site with this issue? I am paying Amazon $70/month for transfer alone now, that’s more than my VM costs. The S3 storage …

Can someone please confirm if this config works well in 2022 or not? :slight_smile:

We’re still using the Cloudflare setup yes.

Thanks for confirming. The setup you’re using is not full-page caching, right? Or is there any special benefit of using Cloudflare CDN over others?

[afbeelding] riteshsaini: The setup you’re using is not full-page caching, right? No, we only cache the uploads and avatars directories; see our rules above. If you try to do anything else you’re likely to break Discourse. [afbeelding] riteshsaini: Or is there any special benefit of usin…

What about static assets like JS and CSS? If we use a CDN using this guide then it will deliver static assets as well along with uploads and avatars (if I know correctly). Then why would Discourse break if we deliver all the static assets through Cloudflare?

I can’t recall, it’s been a few years. Why not try it and report back about the results?

While this thread is active again I should follow up .. it seems that Amazon CloudFront significantly lowered their pricing. I have no idea what they did but my average AWS costs went from around $80 a month to $15 a month. This is for both S3 and CloudFront for images (only) on a site with a whol…

[afbeelding] riteshsaini: Then why would Discourse break if we deliver all the static assets through Cloudflare? Cloudflare is fine - just disable their Rocket Loader feature. With no configuration effort, it saves half the bandwidth back to my server. It might be that years ago Cloudflare …

Cloudflare has been generally good for me as well. I don’t think it caches images on the free plan though?

[afbeelding] NotSoSuper: I don’t think it caches images on the free plan though? mm, possibly, not sure how I could tell. All I know is that they tell me they’ve saved half my bandwidth. I do see they have some kind of non-free image-related offering.

S3 image bandwidth costs are getting annoying

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