While not directly in the Thinkpad name, I have an older X1 Carbon (4th Gen) that has worked really well for me. Extensive travelling, multiple drops, etc. Thing still is solid. Runs Debian really well.
I have only ever owned Thinkpads (until the carbon) and I don't see any reason I would personally switch back to Thinkpad version. Carbons are so small and perfect for my usage.
Ah, if only this was fully available ~ 4 months ago.
I transitioned my recipe app with ~ 80,000 images from Cloudinary to a combination of Backblaze B2 + Bunny.net a few months ago. I heavily use the resizing and optimizing features.
It's saved me a ton of money, but if I could have used B2 + Cloudflare with their 0 bandwidth alliance, I could have saved more, I think - haven't done the math though.
In the grand scheme of things, though, I've worked with Bunny now and love the interface, and performance. The one time I contacted support, I spoke 1 on 1 with , I believe, the founder of Bunny. He was cool.
Cloudflare is doing some killer things, excited for that. But glad to see we have small name alternatives to everything (S3 to B2, Cloudflare to Bunny, etc) that can compete on price and functionality.
Have you considered imgix? It's like Cloudinary, but with flat pricing per # of origin images. Transformations and bandwidth don't cost extra. It's nice because you don't have to manage yet another stack, just plop in a URL and you're done.
It seems like Cloudflare wants you to predefine all the "variants" (transformations) as specific templates in their GUI, whereas Cloudinary and Imgix are much more flexible and accept specific URL parameters to create those transformations.
How is it more expensive (than Cloudinary, which the parent was talking about)?
Cloudinary uses a credit system and charges by disk space + bandwidth + transformation calls. Its free plan is metered and only good for up to a small number of monthly visitors.
Imgix charges by # of origin images, regardless of their size, and everything is included free. The free plan is up to 1000 source images and bandwidth/disk space are not charged (though fair use limits prob apply?)
Is there still an opportunity to get paid back, rather than keeping it in the system?
I love the idea of the loan continuing through the system for myself (I don't personally need the payback), but I'd imagine there would be some funders / loaners that would like the original system of getting paid back. Is that still a possibility?
I am sending this to a few friends that are really excited about African entrepreneurship (myself included). Great idea!
At the moment, we are offering both Pay It Forward projects and traditional loans (where lenders are repaid) to our existing lenders, and showing only the new Pay It Forward projects to new users who sign up. This makes things easier to understand for new users and helps us gather clear feedback on the Pay It Forward concept.
Great write-up. I've just switched from Cloudinary to Backblaze B2 + Bunny CDN and I am saving a pretty ridiculous amount of money for hosting thousands of customer images.
Bunny has a great interface and service; I'm really surprised how little people know about it, I think I discovered it on some 'top 10 CDNs list' that I usually ignore, but the pricing was too good to pass up.
The team is really on the ball from what I've seen. Appreciate the descriptive post, folks!
