Hi @HardAtWork I believe I saw that on R2 pricing page.

Here?

Yes in this page there were to pricing calculations were illustrated one for Data Storage and other for Asset Hosting.

That’s the R2 billing examples section.

Those are just examples. R2 is a single product, but you can build many different kinds of products on top of it

Noted, thanks for confirming. On that note we’re looking forward to exploring and understanding what will be practical use cases for our requirements if we want to use R2 for our studio’s Data Backup and Archival solution. How do we go about understanding the full functional round trip? As well as mapping these cost calculations for our specific usage patterns?

The API is priced in the table shown below. Class A/B ops are also shown below:

Sure thanks and yes that’s accessible from the pricing page.

What will allow me to ascertain if that the right solution for our business case?

We’re a two years young startup studio based out of Mumbai, India. And exploring the backup and archival solution for our large and complex datasets of VFX assets and shots.

Like a price calculator? https://pricing.ceru.dev/r2

R2 is generally best for apps that need to expose files to the open internet

Not to say that you can’t use it for internal archival

Would you have any case studies of the VFX studios who are already using R2 services for their data backup and archival solution? And would you recommend R2 services for this use case?

Haven’t heard of any, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any. As for whether I would recommend R2, it would depend on how big your files are, how often you update/add files, how often you need to retrieve files, etc

Sounds good, we’re dealing with various type and size of files as it involves EXR image data of 16 and 32 bit per RGBA channels as well as 3D data the involves points, polygons, volumes , textures, audio data etc so the file sizes varies from a few MBs to GBs in some cases. And we generate say about a average of a terabyte of data on daily basis. Retrieval though will be on need basis from a cloud storage like R2 as most of this data is stored and being served from the on-premise storage server over SMB/CIFS and NFSv4

I probably wouldn't recommend R2 for that. If you're looking for backup/archival - there are specific services for backup and archival. R2's storage model is sort of the opposite of what it sounds like you need. R2 charges for data storage (this data storage cost is going to get out of hand quickly if you're adding 1TB every day). Look for enterprise backup services out there - they usually store your data on inexpensive magnetic tape, and charge a nominal storage fee for the warehouse space to store your tape backups.

If you need regular access to your cloud-stored files, though, R2 is the cheapest of the cloud storage providers

I want to use r2 to store images that I want to render on my website. When setting up r2, there is an option to connect a custom domain. I suspect that this might help me to access the images from the domain that I connect. However, when attempting to add the domain, it says 'DNS record for this domain already exists on zone' (Code: 10056). Can someone please help me better understand the issue? Should I remove the domain from the Cloudflare website section? Why can I not connect this domain to r2?

tl;dr

You have a DNS record already set for the subdomain you’re trying to use. Ex: you want to use

files.example.com

but you already have a

files

subdomain record set in your DNS settings. You have to remove that first

^ you're probably not entering a subdomain, ex. just example.com. usually you'd want to put it on something else like above, files.example.com

but I added it in the first place for another purposes. If I remove it it would defeat the initial purpose. is there any other way without removing?

the custom domain lets you access the files from your own domain. if you have a file, a.png that you want to serve on your website, www.example.com, you can create a custom domain to, lets say, files.example.com. you'd then be able to add an image on www.example.com pointing to files.example.com/a.png.

ohhh, I see. let my try. thank you

So I looked into migrating from my current storage provider to R2, it's not that simple because I have a lot of object metadata. Are there any plans to extend the R2 Migrator to non AWS S3 compatible storage providers or do I have to build my own solution?

I am attempting to configure Cloudflare for SaaS (custom hostnames) to work with an R2 bucket as a fallback origin. However, I encounter an error page when trying to access the R2 bucket from the custom hostname, which has already been validated. Do you guys have any suggestions for me?

you can't. u need to use workers & write some code

then you'll route the custom hostname to that worker

You would need to test this before committing, but I believe s3cmd and Rclone both currently support migrating metadata, if you wanted to do your own custom migration