Questions About Cloudflare CDN & R2 Usage, Costs, and Limits for Growing Media Project
I’m developing a project and planning to use Cloudflare. From my research, I read that Cloudflare CDN offers unlimited requests and no extra charges for bandwidth. However, I have some questions and would appreciate insights from experienced folks:
My project expects around 8,000 to 10,000 daily users, each viewing approximately 50 to 100 media files.
I plan to use Cloudflare CDN together with R2 storage.
Is there any extra cost for traffic served from the CDN cache? The first requests fetch files from R2, then subsequent requests are served from cache — how does this affect billing?
Would the Cloudflare Pro plan be sufficient for this level of traffic and bandwidth?
Are there really no request limits or bandwidth caps on Cloudflare CDN? Or is there any billing per request or per bandwidth usage?
How does billing work for R2 storage and data egress? Is bandwidth charged separately?
My project will start with low traffic and grow over time — which plan do you recommend for such a scenario?
Also, I manage WebSocket connections on my own server — does using Cloudflare CDN impact this setup in any way?
Given this, would the Cloudflare CDN Pro plan be sufficient to handle our media delivery needs during both the early and potential growth phases?
From what I’ve researched, Cloudflare seems very advantageous for these needs, but I’d love to hear about any caveats or practical tips from actual usage. Thanks in advance!
Estimated Traffic & Bandwidth
Daily visitors: 8,000 – 10,000
Monthly visitors: 240,000 – 300,000
Daily bandwidth usage: 1 – 1.5 TB
Monthly bandwidth usage: 30 – 45 TB
The estimated daily visitors and bandwidth mentioned above represent an upper limit scenario, expected in later stages of the project. Initially, the traffic and bandwidth will be significantly lower, and it’s possible that these peak numbers might never be fully reached.
I need guidance from experienced professionals. Hope Cloudflare reps or knowledgeable folks see this and reply.
My project expects around 8,000 to 10,000 daily users, each viewing approximately 50 to 100 media files.
I plan to use Cloudflare CDN together with R2 storage.
Is there any extra cost for traffic served from the CDN cache? The first requests fetch files from R2, then subsequent requests are served from cache — how does this affect billing?
Would the Cloudflare Pro plan be sufficient for this level of traffic and bandwidth?
Are there really no request limits or bandwidth caps on Cloudflare CDN? Or is there any billing per request or per bandwidth usage?
How does billing work for R2 storage and data egress? Is bandwidth charged separately?
My project will start with low traffic and grow over time — which plan do you recommend for such a scenario?
Also, I manage WebSocket connections on my own server — does using Cloudflare CDN impact this setup in any way?
Given this, would the Cloudflare CDN Pro plan be sufficient to handle our media delivery needs during both the early and potential growth phases?
From what I’ve researched, Cloudflare seems very advantageous for these needs, but I’d love to hear about any caveats or practical tips from actual usage. Thanks in advance!
Estimated Traffic & Bandwidth
Daily visitors: 8,000 – 10,000
Monthly visitors: 240,000 – 300,000
Daily bandwidth usage: 1 – 1.5 TB
Monthly bandwidth usage: 30 – 45 TB
The estimated daily visitors and bandwidth mentioned above represent an upper limit scenario, expected in later stages of the project. Initially, the traffic and bandwidth will be significantly lower, and it’s possible that these peak numbers might never be fully reached.
I need guidance from experienced professionals. Hope Cloudflare reps or knowledgeable folks see this and reply.
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