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Moving media library for regional news site to cloud

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Tuesday, August 05, 2025

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Hi, we run a local news site in the UK and are thinking that offloading our Media library (circa 50Mb) to cloud storage would be beneficial, we think your plugin could help with this.

Our only concern is the unkown cost for images being fetched when people visit the site. We have circa 2 million page views per month and, being a news site, lots of images on many of the pages.

If we use Amazon S3, are we correct that every image that is viewed on a web page by a site visitor would be classed as egress by Amazon and thus charged for? If so any advice on how to estimate the cost for this?

If we were to use something like Cloudflare R2 for storage, then I'm assuming there would be no cost for accessing the images in a browser as there is no egress charge?

We're just trying to get our heads around this as we obviously want to keep control of the costs.

Any advice you can offer?

Thanks

Stuart

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3 weeks ago

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Hi,

Thanks for contacting us here about this extension.

Yes, you're correct about S3 egress charges - every image view would incur costs, which could quickly add up with your traffic volume.
For a news site with 2 million monthly page views, this could become quite expensive.

Cloudflare R2 is definitely the better choice here. With zero egress fees and storage costs of only ~$0.015/GB/month, your 50MB library would cost under $1/month regardless of traffic.
This gives you complete cost predictability.

WP Media Folder supports both platforms, but R2's pricing model is much more suitable for high-traffic, image-heavy sites like yours.
You'll avoid the unpredictable egress costs that could significantly impact your budget with S3.

Cheers,

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