It is a big problem. There is no good alternative to Cloudflare as a free CDN. They put servers all over the world and they are giving them away for free. And making their money on premium serverless services.
Not to mention the big cloud providers are unhinged with their egress pricing.
> Not to mention the big cloud providers are unhinged with their egress pricing.
I always wonder why this status quo persisted even after Cloudflare. Their pricing is indeed so unhinged, that they're not even in consideration for me for things where egress is a variable.
Why is egress seemingly free for Cloudflare or Hetzner but feels like they launch spaceships at AWS and GCP every time you send a data packet to the outside world?
They are just greedy. And they know nobody can compete with them for availability in every country. Except for Cloudflare, which is why it is so popular.