CloudFlare Free also identifies / blocks “bad players” likely trying to compromise my website — is this something you do?

We do not offer other things such as Cloudflare do, like security or CDN for the pages of the whole website.

However, you can use Cloudimage and Cloudflare at the same time. If you use both, then: — Cloudimage will deal with image compression, be sure to send the right image (in pixels) to the right device, and send the correct format (ex. WEBP for Chrome, JPEG for Safari, ...) — Cloudflare will deal with the rest (security, etc).

If your images are on a specific domain, you can also use Cloudimage CDN without Cloudflare CDN — which means, you can use Cloudimage CDN for images optimization only (and also consider that most of the time, Cloudimage CDN is better than Cloudflare CDN free version).

This is actually a really good mix to use Cloudimage + Cloudflare because Cloudflare is a great product too but does not provide complex image optimization!

So in using cloudflare and cloudimage together, will that reduce the likelihood of going over limits and wondering into the .25c GB zone?
And, is there even a way of turning that off so when limits are hit, it reverts to cloudflare?

In this case, you will be using 2 CDN solutions on your website:
Cloudimage for Image delivery
Cloudflare for all the other files

The benefit of Cloudimage is advanced image optimization which allows to significantly reduce the image sizes and for this reason, reduce the generated traffic.

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