Fun new problem: restricting un-metered outbound bandwidth from clients using direct linode object storage URLs instead of our published Cloudflare cached versions of those URLs. That accounted for 40TB of bandwidth last month.
The sysadmin fun never stops.
Dave
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2026-10-01 12:54:08 UTC
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