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Alex Spinov
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Cloudflare Has a Free Edge Platform — CDN, DNS, Workers, D1, R2, and More at Zero Cost

#devops #webdev #serverless #cloud

A developer needed CDN, DNS, serverless functions, object storage, and a database. Five different services from five different providers. Or one Cloudflare account.

Cloudflare offers an incredible free tier. CDN, DNS, Workers (serverless), D1 (SQLite database), R2 (S3-compatible storage), Pages (static hosting) - all free.

What Cloudflare Offers for Free

  • CDN - Global CDN with 300+ PoPs. No bandwidth charges. Ever.
  • DNS - Fastest authoritative DNS. Free for unlimited domains.
  • Workers - 100,000 requests/day serverless functions
  • D1 - 5GB SQLite database at the edge
  • R2 - 10GB object storage (S3-compatible, zero egress fees)
  • Pages - Unlimited static sites with CI/CD from GitHub
  • KV - 100,000 reads/day key-value store
  • Queues - 1M operations/month message queue
  • Email Routing - Free email forwarding
  • DDoS Protection - Unlimited, unmetered DDoS protection
  • SSL - Free Universal SSL certificates
  • Web Analytics - Privacy-first, free forever

Quick Start (Workers) 

npm create cloudflare@latest my-worker
cd my-worker && npx wrangler dev
npx wrangler deploy
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export default {
  async fetch(request) {
    return new Response('Hello from the edge!')
  }
}
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Website: cloudflare.com - Arguably the most generous free tier in tech

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