Cloudflare Pages

What hackers pick instead

• VercelRecommended for dead-simple git-push deployments, branch previews and a free hobby tier, but critics warn of surprise bills, Next.js lock-in and a recent security breach.139recommend
• GitHub PagesFree static site hosting on your own domain, with files easy to move elsewhere. Critics warn of domain abuse and phishing-like setups, and stale deploys.86recommend
• NetlifyRecommended for easy static hosting with GitHub hookup, drag-and-drop deploys and a generous free tier; the most common caveat is that free credits run out fast and bills can surprise.36recommend
• Cloudflare DropPeople recommend it for quickly hosting simple sites from a drag-and-drop upload, with Cloudflare's CDN included. Critics mainly point to privacy concerns and vague error messages.19recommend
• Statichost.euRecommended as a European static site host with a free plan and short terms. Main caveat: paid tiers seem steep for simple hosting.17recommend

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The 40 most detailed of 110 comments. Each links to the original.

1. 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

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain”

2. 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.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “The death of web development education”

3. I hated pages until I started using the cli. I have started using it more for prototypes, etc. can't beat it for the price.

   Mixed · May 2026 · in “The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed”

4. I've had a great experience with cloudflare pages. It doesn't get much easier than using their cli

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed”

5. free and easy hosting solutions (Cloudflare pages publishes at a press of a button, for example)

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “A website to destroy all websites”

6. Cloudflare Pages is still much more straightforward with one CLI command to deploy a website

   Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself”

7. set up a cloud flare pages that builds an Astro page on git push, served statically for free

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots”

8. go with a serverless setup like Cloudflare pages rather than get into administrating a VM

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “How to Make a Damn Website”

9. I appreciate them having these services to let us showcase our personal projects for free

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Astro Joining Cloudflare”

10. could be served for free from Cloudflare Pages or Vercel, with a nearly unlimited quota

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Laws of Software Engineering”

11. Cloudflare Pages is free with unlimited bandwidth, if you don't need any other backend.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Magit manuals are available online again”

12. Cloudflare seems to have the odd failed build that needs a kick from their dashboard.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Useful patterns for building HTML tools”

13. Just use cloud flare pages, link it up with GitHub, and boom, you have a static site.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner”

14. If your site is static you can host it on CF pages for free with unlimited* egress.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”

15. It was free and it meant that I didn’t have to host it on my own hardware anymore.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers”

16. It's free hosting. Push to github and changes to the website appear in 30 seconds.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”

17. publishing to CloudFlare Pages which costs close to nothing and now takes seconds

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “2026 is the Year of Self-hosting”

18. very convenient way of deploying static websites/SPAs with a generous free tier

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Web Search API”

19. CloudFlare's free deployment connected to my git repos is more than sufficient

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS”

20. Zero reason to pay for or deal with the complexity of an unnecessary VPS.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD”

21. It really is massively simple, a few clicks to create a new deployment

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to”

22. Cloudflare workers/pages/D1/R2 works great for me on the free plan.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites?”

23. one of the easiest and cheapest ways to host a static personal site

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to”

24. have been very happy with them considering the zero cost involved

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day”

25. Unfortunately, Cloudflare Pages are deprecated. While the existing pages will be supported for some time, for new projects the only option is Workers

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)”

26. This was oddly gray mixed (sometimes?) with Pages messaging which definitely was not full-stack in the sense developers wanted.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare”

27. Here I'm talking about deploying Astro to Pages though, which is not nearly as polished as deploying Nextjs on Vercel.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers”

28. the Cloudflare connector surprisingly didn't expose the way to publish a site with just static files

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages”

29. finding how to do it on the UI is getting harder as they add more things and reoranize

    Criticizes · Jul 2026 · in “Cloudflare Drop”

30. CF pages still required too much confusing clicking around on a webpage for me.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI”

31. Pages doesn't support cron, so daily cleanup needs a separate Worker

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: CloudCounter – Serverless GoatCounter on Cloudflare Pages and D1”

32. The legacy option still exists but they don’t make it obvious.

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting”

33. my Pages build is stuck in a queue for almost 2hrs

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Major Outage on Cloudflare”

34. Putting static copies on Github Pages, Cloudflare Pages, and the Internet Archive would make pretty good odds it's preserved.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?”

35. I really didn't gain anything by hosting my blog on my own server with Nginx instead of just using a free Cloudflare Pages

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again”

36. I host both my gamedev tutorials and web game portal websites with cloudflare pages and so far they're pretty decent

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?”

37. Astro + CF Pages/Workers have been my go-to for when I want to spin up a static site

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Astro Joining Cloudflare”

38. I'd have guessed pages would be the perfect fit for hosting a rendered astro website

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Astro Joining Cloudflare”

39. deploying serverless functions and static sites from the same repo has been seamless

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

40. you can manually upload a local folder (with an index.html etc) to cloudflare pages

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “How to Make a Damn Website”