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Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?

osigurdson Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Hi all,

I've noticed that container images are getting bigger (particularly with AI related images). I was annoyed the pricing of my cloud provider so I quickly whipped something up.

It uses Cloudflare R2 + workers which is the lowest cost way to do this (AFAICT). However, due to how Cloudflare works, I had to change the push side to do it (pull side remains the same). I don't mind this personally (simplifies things a lot for typical use cases imo), but not sure what others would think. I am dog-fooding it right now and it is working fine but wondering if there is any interest in the community more broadly? As a SaaS, $5/month would cover 100GiB storage easily. Egress has a non-zero associated cost, but I think would be noise for most use cases. Alternately it could be something you run in your own CF account perhaps. It is extremely fast as well since it leverages Cloudflare's edge / CDN. So, faster, cheaper but a necessarily a little bit different to take advantage of things.

Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts / feedback on this approach, please let me know.

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