Case Study: Nodecraft eliminates egress fees and slashes data-transfer costs with Cloudflare

Nodecraft Switches Cloud Providers to Save Big with Bandwidth Alliance

Nodecraft makes it easy for users to spin up and switch private game servers for titles like Minecraft, ARK, and Counter‑Strike, but its flexible service required substantial storage and heavy bandwidth. As usage grew, the company faced rapidly rising bills from AWS S3—especially egress charges for transferring stored data to players.

Nodecraft moved its storage to Backblaze B2 and delivers content over Cloudflare’s global network; because both are members of the Bandwidth Alliance, egress fees between them are waived. The switch eliminated costly data‑transfer charges, substantially reduced overall hosting costs, and also gave Nodecraft the added benefits of Cloudflare’s DDoS protection and Argo Smart Routing for better performance.

Nodecraft

James Ross

Co-Founder, CTO