How come cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive are cheaper than Cloudflare R2 and Amazon S3? Do you have any suggestions for reducing cloud storage costs? I know that R2 doesn't charge for egress.
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Hi Devs, Have you tried Cloudflare R2 as an alternative to AWS S3.
what are your findings please share.
they are giving free data transfer to the internet.
that means less charges for building a media sharing app at scale.
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Has anyone tried to implement hybrid peer to peer video on demand system?
Normal CDN + storage costs >$1000 each month which is way too much
I am trying to build one I don't know what Will be the future. if it succeed we can stream lots of videos
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