# Help: I'm being billed a lot for bandwidth

**URL:** <https://answers.netlify.com/t/help-im-being-billed-a-lot-for-bandwidth/11546>\
**Category:** Admin\
**Tags:** billing-pricing, caching\
**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/help-im-being-billed-a-lot-for-bandwidth/11546 "2020-04-01T13:19:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/help-im-being-billed-a-lot-for-bandwidth/11546/5 "2020-04-06T05:46:53Z")

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Hi, @antoinerousseau, Netlify will always serve HTTPS for any site hosted with our service.

We can only provisions automatic SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt for domains if their DNS records point directly to Netlify using one of our two supported methods: [Netlify DNS](https://docs.netlify.com/domains-https/netlify-dns/) or [external DNS](https://docs.netlify.com/domains-https/custom-domains/configure-external-dns/).

There is more about this here:

> [@\[Support Guide\] What problems could occur when using Cloudflare in front of Netlify?](https://answers.netlify.com/t/common-issue-why-isn-t-my-ssl-certificate-provisioning-automatically-with-cloudflare-netlify-are-there-other-problems-with-using-cloudflare-in-front-of-netlify/138):
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> Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 Note: We recommend not using both Cloudflare’s CDN (“Accelerate and Protect”, the orange cloud in their UI) and Netlify for the same site at the same time. Why? Read on! Netlify’s web service is not designed to work optimally with another CDN “in front of” our CDN. [Proxying to our service is in general not supported](https://answers.netlify.com/t/support-guide-why-not-proxy-to-netlify/8869) and we advise you not to do it for best hosting results. Cloudflare has made similar statements that it doesn’t recommend this usa…

Is it possible for Cloudflare to make the HTTPS requests to the subdomain of `netlify.com` for this site? We will serve our wildcard SSL certificate (`*.netlify.com`) for this domain name.

So, for example, the asset above would be at a URL similar to this:

```plaintext
https://example-subdomain-here.netlify.com/webpack-runtime-1e73942cf63b57021d45.js

```

If this isn’t possible, another solution is to upload a custom SSL certificate to Netlify and continue to update that manually each time it it going to expire.

If there are other questions about this, we’re happy to answer.

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