Purz outlines a Cloudflare media site costing about $6 a month
Purz describes a Cloudflare-hosted media site costing $5 a month plus about $1 in data. It combines bucket uploads and shareable video links with a public site and a Zero Trust-protected management panel.
TL;DR
- About $6 a month covers Purz's Cloudflare media site: his cost breakdown puts the plan at $5 and data at roughly $1.
- A Zero Trust-protected management panel feeds a public media website in his setup outline.
- Video links work when pasted into Discord, according to his reply about sharing.
The public library ranges from a 10.6-second clip to a 22-minute file, complete with timestamp-style filenames. Motion artist and educator Purz has a blunt pitch: “Post your work and own the means of distribution.” He reckons a weekend with Claude Code on a $20 subscription could be enough to build a similar site.
Video pages and Discord links
Purz points readers to his TV page at purz.ai/tv as the working example. He says its shareable links work when pasted into Discord.
He also shared this short motion teaser in a separate thread:
Bucket uploads and a Zero Trust panel
Purz outlined three pieces of the publishing system:
- Upload system: puts media files into a storage bucket.
- Management panel: uses Zero Trust protection and feeds the public website.
- Public website: displays the stored media.
Cloudflare's Access documentation describes how its application protection works: access is denied by default, and users must match an Allow policy to get through.
Purz said he would write a guide when he had downtime. The weekend-build estimate was a suggestion to another creator, rather than a reported build time for his own site.
Cloudflare versus home hardware
For artists, the strongest part of Purz's pitch is avoiding the dedicated server and security upkeep he described in a reply about self-hosting.
He also argued that Cloudflare's global caching network would handle a spike in video interest better than a laptop, Raspberry Pi or residential internet connection.
The monthly bill
Purz described the extra dollar as “data,” without itemizing the charge.
His reply doesn't identify the paid plan or bucket product. For comparison, Cloudflare's Workers Paid plan starts at $5 a month, with additional charges for usage beyond its included allowances.
For a version built with R2 object storage, Cloudflare's Standard-tier pricing lists:
- Storage: 10 GB-month free each month, then $0.015 per GB-month.
- Upload and listing operations: 1 million Class A operations free monthly, then $4.50 per million.
- Read operations: 10 million Class B operations free monthly, then $0.36 per million.
- Outbound bandwidth: no egress charges.