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Common paper wasp posted this in #help-forum
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Common paper waspOP
I'm looking into potentially using a CDN to deliver my images because I'm going to be making a blog site and I'm not too terribly fond of the idea of my project being overcrowded with image files (I'm sure that's probably a normal thing for a project that grows though lol).

I know there's tons of options and Im not really asking for what is out there. I'm more asking what I need to look for in a CDN if I'm specifically looking to serve images only. And I'm asking about tips or pitfalls to be wary of. Last, I'm wondering how serving them works in Markdown. Currently I'm using 

![image](/image.jpg)


And that works fine but I'm not sure how that will change if I need to serve from a CDN.

So ones I'm looking at are probably

- S3
- Cloudinary
- CloudFlare

If anyone has experience with either of these and what their FREE tier is like and how I can protect myself against surprise costs, I'd totally be down to listen. Thanks!

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Madeiran sardinella
Hi, I think you already know all you need to start. Maybe cloudinary has more image focused features even in its free tier than S3, for example.
Common paper waspOP
Haha glad I wasn't missing anything! I'll look more into Cloudinary and see about getting that set up. I have to look to make sure I don't get surprise fees like I hear about sometimes with these providers lol