# Cloudflare Pages 83 Hacker News commenters recommended Cloudflare Pages and 18 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 0.2 years (3 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Free static site hosting that deploys from git or the CLI, with a generous free tier. Most common caveat: Pages is deprecated for new projects in favor of Workers. ## Why people recommend it - Free with generous limits (10 comments): "Cloudflare Pages is free with unlimited bandwidth, if you don't need any other backend." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931329)) "If your site is static you can host it on CF pages for free with unlimited* egress." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608021)) "could be served for free from Cloudflare Pages or Vercel, with a nearly unlimited quota" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848516)) - Simple git or CLI deploys (9 comments): "Just use cloud flare pages, link it up with GitHub, and boom, you have a static site." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710722)) "It's free hosting. Push to github and changes to the website appear in 30 seconds." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612610)) "It really is massively simple, a few clicks to create a new deployment" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968124)) - Nothing to maintain or administer (4 comments): "makes things easier (nothing to maintain) and ensures that if we end up popular on HN or Reddit, there is no hug of death because the scale is infinite" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813409)) "go with a serverless setup like Cloudflare pages rather than get into administrating a VM" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608706)) "It was free and it meant that I didn’t have to host it on my own hardware anymore." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769859)) - Handles heavy traffic spikes (3 comments): "makes things easier (nothing to maintain) and ensures that if we end up popular on HN or Reddit, there is no hug of death because the scale is infinite" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813409)) "Cloudflare Pages, or if you you'd prefer to stay CDN-less, a $4 VPS, will handle any sort of traffic this blog can reasonably receive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927346)) "could be served for free from Cloudflare Pages or Vercel, with a nearly unlimited quota" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848516)) ## What people warn about - Pages deprecated for new projects (2 comments): "Unfortunately, Cloudflare Pages are deprecated. While the existing pages will be supported for some time, for new projects the only option is Workers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715250)) "The legacy option still exists but they don’t make it obvious." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570964)) - Confusing dashboard, hard to navigate (3 comments): "finding how to do it on the UI is getting harder as they add more things and reoranize" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838243)) "CF pages still required too much confusing clicking around on a webpage for me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458850)) "This was oddly gray mixed (sometimes?) with Pages messaging which definitely was not full-stack in the sense developers wanted." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404036)) - Failed or stuck builds (2 comments): "Cloudflare seems to have the odd failed build that needs a kick from their dashboard." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229072)) "my Pages build is stuck in a queue for almost 2hrs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106098)) - Missing features compared to Workers (3 comments): "the Cloudflare connector surprisingly didn't expose the way to publish a site with just static files" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639992)) "Pages doesn't support cron, so daily cleanup needs a separate Worker" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897133)) "Here I'm talking about deploying Astro to Pages though, which is not nearly as polished as deploying Nextjs on Vercel." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763171)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Vercel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vercel.md): 139 recommend - [GitHub Pages](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-pages.md): 86 recommend - [Netlify](https://hackerapproved.com/p/netlify.md): 36 recommend - [Cloudflare Drop](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-drop.md): 19 recommend - [Statichost.eu](https://hackerapproved.com/p/statichost-eu.md): 17 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/pages/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Cloudflare Pages", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-pages/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).