Cloudflare R2 vs S3 for VPS Hosting: Practical Tradeoffs

If you’re running a VPS-hosting setup, cloudflare r2 vs s3 isn’t an academic debate—it’s the difference between predictable bills and surprise egress charges, between “good enough” S3 compatibility and a storage layer that plays nicer with the edge. This article compares Cloudflare R2 and Amazon S3 specifically through the lens of VPS hosting: object storage for backups, static assets, user uploads, and offloading disk from your droplet/instance. 1) The core difference: egress economics (and why