Cloudflare offers r2, an S3 compatible cloud storage with zero egress costs.
I wanted someone other than this site to host static assets (files that do not change once created, like - images, PDFs etc; and are not suitable to be stored in a git repo with rest of the content), and R2 was a good solution after considering a few others.
I have a directory caleld files.btbytes.com on my $HOME and I sync it up
to the r2 bucket using a shell script using rclone
#!/bin/bash
# sync.sh
rclone -vv sync . btfiles:/btbytes-static-assets/The btfiles configuration comes from $HOME/.config/rclone/rclone.conf:
[btfiles]
type = s3
provider = Cloudflare
access_key_id = <your access key id>
secret_access_key = <your secret access key>
endpoint = https://<your endpoint>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com
acl = private
I copy the files over - like these image files and
run ./sync.sh to copy them to r2.
I then use the Cloudfront dashboard to serve the contents of this bucket as a website, in this case - files.btbytes.com.
As far as I know, R2 does not support automatic index files at the root of the domain/directory. so visiting files.btbytes.com itself will show a 404.