Switching to a hosted service ended up reducing our image hosting costs to almost nothing.

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Adam Fortuna shares how his team reduced their Imgix bill from $1,000/month to $1 using Google Cloud. By migrating to Google Cloud Run and utilizing Imaginary, a Go-based image processing server, they managed to downscale their costs significantly. The new setup involves using a CDN, load balancer, and custom caching configurations to achieve faster response times and lower expenses.

How We Reduced a $1,000/month Imgix Bill to $1 using Google Cloud - Hardcover

Turn out serving the content is the actual cost that you have to deal with, great article though although a little bit misleading in the title 😅

If I can come up with a solution for the CDN without the load balancer let us know, now I’m hooked.

Misleading and clickbaity title! Disappointed 🤨

Did you try to put the Cloud Run directly behind Cloudflare?