Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

Post by samjmck » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

Post by lookingfj » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 2:30 PM UTC

StratusBen wrote: post #3

Cloudflare is increasingly becoming one of the more interesting companies out there. I feel like they're shifting more and more from being a straight up CDN and trying to dip their toes into things that are closer to but not quite exactly IaaS. Kind of like a better developer experience on top of certain AWS services.

Post by yandie » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

StratusBen wrote: post #3

Cloudflare is increasingly becoming one of the more interesting companies out there. I feel like they're shifting more and more from being a straight up CDN and trying to dip their toes into things that are closer to but not quite exactly IaaS. Kind of like a better developer experience on top of certain AWS services.

Post by bamboleo » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 2:46 PM UTC

samjmck wrote: post #2

Seems very similar to Netlify, which is a good thing. Commits get their own preview URLs and branches get their own dedicated alias. Had a quick look at their pricing as well and the main difference is the Cloudflare free plan is limited to 500 builds per month as opposed to Netlify's 300 build _minutes_ per month and that Cloudflare offer unlimited bandwidth instead of 100GB per month. I am excited to start using th…

Post by Terretta » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

nrmitchi wrote: post #7

This is probably going to go somewhere, and it's good to see Netlify get some more competition, but this announcement kind of lost me at: > There are no great solutions. Therea are plenty of existing solutions here that do pretty much the same thing, including Netlify, Vercel, and going all the way back to Heroku. Cloudflare is expanding their product line, which is fine, but lets not pretend that this is some brand…