Hosting user-generated content makes it inevitable that someone will upload unsavory or even illegal content, are you using some kind image processing to identify that content proactively and flag it for review?
And best of luck in your endeavor!
No free trial, collecting credit cards highly reduces various abuses.
Have you ever done something like this before or your first time?
I hope it works out, it looks nice but we’re almost over saturated with image hosting options.
I feel like a better option would be creating an open source project of the application managing the images. With it doing something unique to its competitors and giving a way that someone could use it to manage their companies images.
The only thing that worries me about usage-based pricing is denial of wallet attacks. You mention there won’t be any surprise bills but if someone decides to hammer my image for 85 TB worth of traffic I don’t see any mechanism that would cap my spend in any way.
They might be using a hosting that doesn’t charge insane prices for egress. Both Hetzner and DigitalOcean give first 20-23 TB of egress per month for free and then charge $10/TB overage.
They use Bunny CDN who charge about $10/TB (it can be more or less depending on network choice and bulk).
If magecdn doesn't support setting a cap then their "no surprise charges" is misleading. But if they do support caps then it should be mentioned in the FAQ imho, it's a selling point.
From Hetzner's dedicated server pricing page:
>All root servers have a dedicated 1 GBit uplink by default and with it unlimited traffic. Inclusive monthly traffic for servers with 10G uplink is 20TB. There is no bandwidth limitation. We will charge € 1/TB for overusage
Congrats on the launch. A small nit re: your pricing: you're charging for data transfer (bytes transferred over a long period of time), not bandwidth (bits transmitted at a point in time).
Would be good to have some rationale or understanding why someone would use this other than a broad based CDN such as CloudFlare or AWS?
Are image only CDN's a sustainable market? Maybe they are, and I'm just ignorant on why websites would choose such a thing over a general CDN.
Surely if someone has enough traffic or load to require a CDN then they would want it for their whole site and not just for image resources?
Image CDN primarily offers image resizing, especially useful for responsive images. It has a sizable market, both Cloudflare and AWS offer image processing service, see also major players like Cloudinary and Cloudimage.
Image and general CDNs are not exclusive: pictures resized on-the-fly and hosted on image CDN, while html/js/css hosted on general CDN.
I think this is for blogs/sales pages using shared hosting maybe also people who likes sharing images on forums. Uploading an image and then copy pasting the link looks a lot easier than navigating CloudFlare or AWS. Basically, if you feel comfortable with big cloud user interfaces then you are not the target.
Good on you to build a tool to scratch your itch!
As another poster highlighted, hosting other people's content is tricky. Its certainly not a business I would rather be in. I bet the management of this SaaS service is going to quickly take over your day job.
If you are just hosting your own content you can do it pretty cheaply using the AWS Serverless Image Handler stack:
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/serverless-...
Oh, nice.
Mine isn’t image-based, but I rolled my own CDN using S3 as a backend, Lambda/DynamoDB for some metadata stuff, and Cloudfront as the CDN (so yeah, I didn’t roll my own CDN, I just implemented all the backend upload/admin stuff).
The great part is that it’s stupid cheap for a hobbyist, and Cloudfront has a generous free tier. I can also always swap that part out if it becomes too expensive.
There is no way in hell I’m ever using something internet facing that costs me 0.1 a gig. That’s just asking for a gigantic bill because some kid decided to mess with you or someone misconfigured something
the idea of a 14 year old skid with a grudge blasting reqs as fast as his python script can manage taking an appreciable amount of money from someone using
while True: requests.get("... .png")
is amusing.
>While platforms like Imgur make it really simple to upload images, they don't allow you to embed them.
...is this true? what's stopping you from getting the dict link and plugging it into your <img> tag or wherever your images from this would go?
I've see imgur images embedded in pages just today!
interesting, is this an interface on top of BunnyCDN? Would they be cheaper than Cloudflare image CDN?
I was wondering the same thing, why not using BunnyCDN directly? [1]
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HN "Hug of Death" happening?
$120/yearly, when the price is normally $10/month, is not 2 months free xD
if you click the button for monthly billing the price is $12/month.
And should be $100 annual; for the 2 months free to be true.
No, it’s $120 annual. It’s $144 when paying monthly, so the savings of $24 is the cost of two months.
No DMCA report button... this is going to be interesting.