Ask HN: Cloudflare Pages vs. Netlify vs. Others?

6 points·codegeek··4 comments

Cloudflare Pages was released just over a year ago. I have some side projects and wanted to setup static sites (using git). Would love to hear from people what they are doing to deploy mostly static sites. I am a fan of Cloudflare in general so definitely looking at Cloudflare pages. Netlify seemed ok when I tried 3-4 years ago but their free plan seemed a bit slow on loading the pages.

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Only used Cloudflare pages so can’t compare to others.

I found it super simple, a frictionless developer experience, very generous free tier, good payed tiers.

The integration with workers and some of the other services such as kv, object storage, durable objects means you can build way more than just static websites on it.

Cloudflare seems to be moving pretty fast building out a compelling platform. I see workers/pages as Heroku next gen. It is still early days for them though.

I liked what I saw so much I purchased Cloudflare shares.

I started using https://vercel.com/ to host Svelte apps.

If you just want static sites, I suggest:

- https://surge.sh/

- https://pages.github.com/

(I think Netlify and Cloudflare are also fine; not sure why you think they are slow?)

Even more here: https://free-for.dev/#/?id=web-hosting

FYI cloudflare pages cannot handle monorepo with 2 builds

Personally I am pissed off at netlify for side-swiping us with a huge price increase and a few weeks to decide

if you want to self host, give my product a try https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver. It will auto-sync your static site from git repo.

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