This may be stupid but when serving files via r2 and the cloudflare cdn, is it really unlimited band

This may be stupid but when serving files via r2 and the cloudflare cdn, is it really unlimited bandwidth? Like truly uncapped? If so, why doesn't youtube or netflix just host stuff on r2? Wouldn't it just massively bring down server costs?

Zora•3/1/25, 3:08 AM

youtube or netflix probably get the storage for cheaper and they have their own ways to save bandwidth

Zora•3/1/25, 3:08 AM

storage on r2 is pretty expensive compared to others

Vvarundeva Im getting error while uploading file to r2 `[Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND rakth...

Triple•3/1/25, 10:37 AM

here's mine

nehatkhan•3/1/25, 11:01 AM

hello guys need help uploading images to R2 all at instead of uploading one by one. please suggest the way to upload images at once.

Nnehatkhan hello guys need help uploading images to R2 all at instead of uploading one by o...

Jadugar_Jaggu•3/1/25, 11:15 AM

you can upload a folder using cloudflare dashboard

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nehatkhan•3/1/25, 11:17 AM

I thought of doing that using promise.all but what if some images failed to upload and it throw error. so the images will get uploaded will be there for life till I manually delete the uploaded image manually. what is the best approach to handle this scenario.

basically I have a travel package model where I am uploading images and package details.

JJadugar_Jaggu you can upload a folder using cloudflare dashboard

nehatkhan•3/1/25, 11:18 AM

sir have to do it with code for client.

Vvarundeva Im getting error while uploading file to r2 `[Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND rakth...

Jadugar_Jaggu•3/1/25, 11:19 AM

cloudflarestorage.com subdomains of this domain isn't accessible with some indian ISPs like Jio, if you are locally using Jio or related ISP you have to use vpn or proxy

Nnehatkhan I thought of doing that using promise.all but what if some images failed to uplo...

Jadugar_Jaggu•3/1/25, 11:20 AM

You can do promise all with cloudflare workflows steps, it has auto retry mechanism

JJadugar_Jaggu You can do promise all with cloudflare workflows steps, it has auto retry mechan...

nehatkhan•3/1/25, 11:21 AM

nice sir. could you please share article or doc link to achieve this

Vvarundeva How can i do that? Any guidance? Because if same happens that should be done in...

Jadugar_Jaggu•3/1/25, 11:23 AM

You don't have to use VPN in VPS server cause they will be able to access it, as they do not have any content restrictions

Jadugar_Jaggu•3/1/25, 11:24 AM

it's only ISP Jio who occasionally bans cloudflare domains and ips

Nnehatkhan nice sir. could you please share article or doc link to achieve this

Jadugar_Jaggu•3/1/25, 11:25 AM

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/

It's currently in beta

Cloudflare Docs

Cloudflare Workflows · Cloudflare Workflows docs

Workflows is a durable execution engine built on Cloudflare Workers. Workflows allow you to build multi-step applications that can automatically retry, persist state and run for minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Workflows introduces a programming model that makes it easier to build reliable, long-running tasks, observe as they progress, and progra...

JJadugar_Jaggu https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/ It's currently in beta

nehatkhan•3/1/25, 11:26 AM

sir is this like queue system?

Nnehatkhan sir is this like queue system?

Jadugar_Jaggu•3/1/25, 11:26 AM

No you can read more about it on the official site

JJadugar_Jaggu No you can read more about it on the official site

nehatkhan•3/1/25, 11:26 AM

okay sir thank you so much for the help and time.

Nnehatkhan I thought of doing that using promise.all but what if some images failed to uplo...

gruntlord6•3/1/25, 3:37 PM

Alternative method would be to clear that directory or bucket after a specific amount of time, depending on the use case.

I have a system for user uploads that gets moved after they are processed and otherwise they are deleted after 7 days by the bucket retention.

In other projects I take a different approach

VVi This may be stupid but when serving files via r2 and the cloudflare cdn, is it r...

gruntlord6•3/1/25, 3:39 PM

Not for video streaming, they have a separate service for that.

But for other files yes it's purely the amount of reads/writes you use that gets billed

If you use the cdn caching that basically becomes negligible so you really just pay for storage at that point

gruntlord6•3/1/25, 3:40 PM

Yea but I don't think video streaming is allowed on the cdn

gruntlord6•3/1/25, 3:43 PM

Weird, I swear the TOD said that video streaming specifically wasn't allowed on the CDN but then again it's been pretty back and forth in the discussions I've read.

Even the updated TOS still seems to be confusing

Tuna•3/1/25, 4:50 PM

Any idea why

const data = await env.R2_BUCKET.get(objectKey, {
range: { offset: part.start, length: part.length }
});
if (!data || !data?.body) {
logger.error({ partNumber: part.number, offset: part.start, length: part.length }, 'Missing part data');
throw new Error(

Missing part ${part.number} data

Missing part ${part.number} data

);
}
i get thrown cause data won't return, it works locally !
i also tried to retry 5 time with backoff and still nothing

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:13 PM

Is there a way to see how much bandwidth is being used per file/folder? Or is it total? Or is there some way for me to collect logs when a file gets hit?

I basically allow users to upload various files and currently there's no bandwidth limit ofc but I want to be able to see which users are heavy users in the case that something needs to happen so knowing which user is using up the most bandwidth would be nice to know

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:14 PM

And just for reference, I serve my r2 files via a custom URL so it will hit the cache

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:26 PM

I'm on their pro plan actually!

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:34 PM

Gotcha, so just to clarify, I'm looking at the dashboard under cache and I can see the paths which got the most traffic, so that's fine, however in my case I'd like to show this to my user as a "Here's how much bandwidth you've used this month" kind of statistic. So for each user their various files would have a path of like '/{user_id}/{folder_id}/somefile.jpg' which means I just need to aggregate the banwdith used by all paths that start with the specific user's ID.

Is it possible to retrieve that info via some sort of API?

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:37 PM

Ah I see, but there's no dedicated simple way I guess? Also I know nothing about graphql tbh lol

I used to use BunnyCDN and they have a log forwarding option so it was pretty easy to figure out how many times a file was viewed, etc, by forwarding the logs to a simple $5 VPS and parsing them and adding them to a db

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:37 PM

Oh yeah I wouldn't let them interact with r2 directly, I just want to build an admin dashboard so I can keep track of which user is using how much bandwidth and reach out to them if needed, etc

Space•3/1/25, 11:41 PM

im getting a CORS error.

[
{
"AllowedOrigins": [
"https://test.com",
],
"AllowedMethods": [
"GET",
"DELETE",
"POST",
"PUT",
"HEAD"
],
"AllowedHeaders": [
"Authorization",
"x-amz-date",
"x-amz-content-sha256",
"Content-Type",
"Length",
"Content-Length",
"content-type"
],
"ExposeHeaders": [
"ETag",
"Location",
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin",
"Content-Type",
"Content-Length"
],
"MaxAgeSeconds": 3000
}
]

i have no idea why. i adjusted my cors rules for my bucket. I simply send a signed transaction from my server to the client and the client just cannot use it due to this

Space•3/1/25, 11:41 PM

any help please

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:41 PM

So I'm not sure if you remember but you helped me with learning about HLS and serving video files (thanks for that)

I generate the manifest on the fly because I use waf so every time a manifest is requested, I know that the video has been played (or at least preloaded/requested/whatever). But what I don't know is how much bandwidth they used, because if the video file is 1GB lets say and they only watched 1 minute before exiting out, they'll incur less bandwidth than a video file that's 50MB but a user watch the whole thing, even though I've recorded 1 play for each file

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:43 PM

So with the way it's being done, I can't do tracking at the layer closest to the user because the manifest file (which is the only 'file' that my server returns) simply links to direct files within the r2 bucket

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:47 PM

Yeah bandwidth is not a concern, but I did read some stories about how some guy got reached out by cloudflare to hop on a large contract because he was using like 1-3 petabytes of data

Now I don't see myself even coming close to that, but in the off chance that some power house user uses my service to host their 1GB file that suddenly gets 1 million views, that's a petabyte of data right there, so if cloudflare reaches out to increase costs, I'd like to know who's using all the bandwidth and figure out extra pricing, etc

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:49 PM

And they're still on the normal plan? They aren't being asked to pay more?

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:50 PM

wow

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Space•3/1/25, 11:52 PM

im still getting the cors error....

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:52 PM

That's insane haha, I mean like I'm just thinking about worst case scenario because I'm planning on charging a fixed price per 100GB lets say, but I'm not specifying bandwidth limits. But if some power user manages to get their video popular overnight and it gets like 10 million views, that's a lot of bandwidth, so I just want to try to be ready for a scenario like that if cloudflare comes knocking asking for a big contract when I'm still only charging them like a flat $10 a month

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:54 PM

But yeah I've set up some pretty agressive caching and I've served 8GB so far and 7.2GB has been through the cache so I think it's setup well enough

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:54 PM

They sure did haha, okay I guess it's a problem for future me and I don't need to look into tracking user bandwidth just yet

ViOP•3/1/25, 11:55 PM

If the day comes, it'll be impressive if anything lol

maco6517•3/2/25, 9:56 AM

cache shows what "none" means

aza547•3/2/25, 12:32 PM

Hi, I have a webapp playing video out of R2. I saw something odd that I couldn't find a reason for today. I was developing on a branch (and pushing to a preview URL ending in .dev). My video playback was a little slow, some requests for content seemed to hang. I merged it to my main branch (and my real domain ending in .com) and it seems fine. Is there some r2 throttling going on when the referrer is a .dev domain? Explicitly this isn't a dev R2 domain. I'm using the regular S3 API endpoint (ending in r2.cloudflarestorage.com).

aza547•3/2/25, 12:39 PM

guess I should give that a go, sensible suggestion, i'll try it out, thanks!

ViOP•3/3/25, 12:29 AM

Is there a standardized way of uploading files to R2? Especially large files? Currently I just generate a pre signed url and send that to the frontend but I want to handle scenarios where a users internet might cut out, or the upload fails for some reason, etc. is there a way to show progress or have the files be automatically cleaned up if it's stopped halfway or something?

Gurmukh•3/3/25, 7:00 AM

hi. I am using R2 general storage to store images for my website. I have a lot of images and I want to give logged users all privileges to access any image. What would be the best way to do it? I dont want signed url for each image and if I understand correctly, you can not get signed url for whole repo. Right now I am using the workers to authenticate by JWT and then server the image. But for this I have to get the image blob using fetch in the frontend and then display the blob. Is there any way I can use <img> tags in the frontend to show images?

bun•3/3/25, 10:43 AM

getting this for uploading files from the client side:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://BUCKET.ACCOUNT_ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/key/whatever.mov?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=whatever&X-Amz-Date=20250303T104239Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=whatever&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-acl=public-read&x-amz-checksum-crc32=AAAAAA%3D%3D&x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm=CRC32&x-id=PutObject' from origin 'http://localhost:3000' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://BUCKET.ACCOUNT_ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/key/whatever.mov?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=whatever&X-Amz-Date=20250303T104239Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=whatever&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-acl=public-read&x-amz-checksum-crc32=AAAAAA%3D%3D&x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm=CRC32&x-id=PutObject' from origin 'http://localhost:3000' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

bun•3/3/25, 10:44 AM

my cors policy:

[
  {
    "AllowedOrigins": [
      "http://localhost:3000"
    ],
    "AllowedMethods": [
      "GET",
      "PUT"
    ]
  }
]

[
  {
    "AllowedOrigins": [
      "http://localhost:3000"
    ],
    "AllowedMethods": [
      "GET",
      "PUT"
    ]
  }
]

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://BUCKET.ACCOUNT_ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/key/whatever.mov?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=whatever&X-Amz-Date=20250303T104239Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=whatever&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-acl=public-read&x-amz-checksum-crc32=AAAAAA%3D%3D&x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm=CRC32&x-id=PutObject' from origin 'http://localhost:3000' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.