Show HN: A detailed CDN pricing calculator

https://www.cdnperf.com/tools/cdn-calculator

by jimaek • 8 years ago

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bubaflub• 8 years ago

Why isn’t Cloudflare listed? They don’t charge for bandwidth so I suppose they’d always be the cheapest.

jimaek4• 8 years ago

That's the reason they are not listed :) They don't have a clear pricing like the other CDNs. They have internal limits and overages for bandwidth but its not public.

jgrahamc3• 8 years ago

That's not true. We do not have overages. We don't charge for bandwidth. If you use a lot of bandwidth then we may contact you and see if paying for service makes more sense for you (for example, if you are running a business on our free plan then the level of support you get might not be what you need; or there may be missing features that would help you).

foobarbazetc• 8 years ago

If you use a lot of bandwidth a CF sales person contacts you and tells you it’s time to pay.

And it’s not cheap. More expensive than Fastly in our case (though we went with Google CDN and saved a bunch of money and got better performance).

ericpauley• 8 years ago

Any idea where this limit is? 1TB? 10? 100?

jgrahamc3• 8 years ago

I'd love to know what site that was (jgc @ cloudflare . com) so that I can understand why we couldn't offer you a good deal. Also, we don't force people to pay. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17639316

eastdakota2• 8 years ago

This is not correct. While we’ll reach out heavy users to see if they’d like to upgrade to get all the benefits of our Enterprise accounts, if you don’t want to upgrade you can continue to use our base plans. If you ever hear otherwise from a person on our Sales team, please let me know directly because they are wrong and in violation of our explicit policies. My email: matthewatcloudflaredotcom.

huangbong• 8 years ago

Cloudflare has a file size limit (512MB) and only caches certain file extensions so for things like binary files, installers, and video it will not cache. For the HTML/CSS/JS asset use case it’s perfectly fine though.

helb• 8 years ago

I run a local news site with ~ 1.3 TB/month traffic on two cheap VPSs and a free Cloudflare account (paying just for a non-shared SSL certificate, $5 per month). It saves us about 95 % of bandwidth.

According to the calculator, the other options would cost from $12000 to $250000. This is roughly cost for 35 - 730 years of all our current services combined (CF cert, 2x VPS, domain). Looking at the detailed pricing, it might be affected by me being in Europe, but still…

Re. some sibling comments – never got any e-mail from CF suggesting to move to their paid plan.

wuyishan• 8 years ago

Akamai has different products, coming with different price tags/GB. Which product does this site take in to consideration?

Edit: ah, it's the azure resell.

jimaek4• 8 years ago

Yes, its the only public pricing we could find for Akamai and some other providers

askaboutit2• 8 years ago

Fastly 1PB: $96,000 OVH 1PB: $6500 Google Cloud: $36,000

CDN pricing is insane.

magnetic2• 8 years ago

Is it possible to replace Google Cloud Storage with a CDN? (in other words, find a CDN that lets you manage files - create/delete - and give you a URL to each file with an allowed origin of * to be able to pull it from anywhere?)

askaboutit2• 8 years ago

I think a lot of CDN’s have cloud storage at the CDN site. https://bunnycdn.com/features has multireplication storage coming soon. You could push to their CDN storage sites and then have that served to users. There are lots of CDN’s with storage though.

Google CDN, Fastly, Cloudfront, they’re selling you bandwidth as Soda. Buy the meal cheap then pay deeply for the refill.

ksec• 8 years ago

Verizon is listed as Azure reseller? What happen to their Edgecast?

I wish someone would resell Limestone.

I also wish someone in the industry could explain why transfer hasn't gotten cheaper over the years, especially from the big three. Why hasn't other challenged them? Or why lastly managed to gain more customers while being more expensive than those big three.

jimaek4• 8 years ago

Azure is reseller of Verizon, which is ex-Edgecast

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