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I'm trying to understand a bit about traffic costs. I'm planning to serve a big download, probably around 30-40gb. However, I am expecting many users to download that, say from a few hundreds to a few thousands each month.
Is there some way to estimate the costs I would have for each amount of monthly downloads?
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From R2/Images/Stream?
If you're just talking about the normal CDN/proxy, it wouldn't be allowed unless on Enterprise:
Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-application-services/#content-delivery-network-terms
If it is with R2, it would cost about $0.45/month
Given no writes
Thank you! I'm open to all options, and certainly happy to pay for the service.
The files are specific data files used in our apps, so they aren't images or videos, but they are pretty large.
Thank you! Is that the cost for storage? Or traffic?
Just storage. Requests are free up to 10 million requests a month
There's no bandwidth costs with R2 (Cloudflare's Generic s3-compat storage), you just pay a flat rate per request
Ah! So is it 0.45 per gb stored?
I probably should have clarified:
R2 = Cloudflare's S3 compat storage
Cloudflare Images = Image pipeline & storage
Cloudflare Stream = Stream/video pipeline & storage
Images/Stream have a bunch of features for that specific content type like Images allows image variants and uploading from a user app, Stream renders the video, etc. They're end-to-end solutions, where R2 is just generic file storage
R2 pricing is here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/
Getting an Object is a class B
It's $0.015 / GB-month per gb stored
Pricing · Cloudflare R2 docs
R2 charges based on the total volume of data stored, along with two classes of operations on that data:
Brilliant, thank you. So I think R2 is what we want - this is only meant for data provided by us to users, and not user data.
So the usage is probably very rare write operations, and very common read operations.
Are requests just a singular http request? For example if one user downloads one large file, is that just one request?
It's just one Class B if they only need one request to download it (Videos use range requests in some cases, for example, which would be multiple). Additionally, if it's a bucket on a custom domain, any requests which hit cache don't count as a Class B
Alright, thank you so much for that information!
I have another question: I've just signed up to the R2 instance, but I can't find docs about how to upload files with the command line?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/objects/upload-objects/
There are docs here, you can use Wrangler (Cloudflare's cli) to do it, but only for files up to 315 MB
For files larger then that, get yourself setup with rclone: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/examples/rclone/
It uses R2's s3-compat API and works great for files of any size, up to R2's 5 TiB max. Rclone is great in general for management, can even mount r2 as a local drive
Thank you so much for your help. I'm trying to set up rclone, and this is my config file:
Then I call:
But I'm getting
Access Denied.
I think it's possible that I took the account ID from the wrong place? The only place I've found something that could be it was in in the URL for my account, where should it be?When you click on a bucket and go to settings, it shows you the url you should use, minus the bucket name
Or just in the R2 tab, on the right side, you can see your accountid
Make sure you generated the token from the R2 Tab -> R2 API Tokens as well, and gave it the right permissions
Yeah, that's exactly the account ID I used. I think the key has the right permissions but I'll double check.
Thank you so much, this works great.