A developer's tribute
Why Developers Love Cloudflare
A blazing global anycast network, edge compute, and a genuinely generous free tier. This is one developer's appreciation - not an official page.
Unofficial community page · Not affiliated with Cloudflare, Inc.
Why we're cheering
Five things Cloudflare got remarkably right for people who build things.
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Global anycast network
Hundreds of cities, milliseconds from virtually every user. Put an app behind it and latency just… disappears.
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Free, bulletproof DNS
Fast, resilient, and free forever. The kind of reliability that used to cost real money, now a checkbox.
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Compute at the edge
Workers run your code close to users worldwide - cold starts measured in single-digit milliseconds.
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A genuinely generous free tier
Real limits you can ship on, not a 30-day trial. Hobby projects and prototypes cost nothing to run.
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Developer-first DX
A local CLI, thoughtful docs, and one-command deploys. The whole loop respects your time.
Products developers reach for
A toolkit that covers storage, compute, hosting, and more - under one roof.
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Compute
Workers
Serverless functions running at the edge, milliseconds from every user.
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Hosting
Pages
Build and ship Jamstack sites with Git-integrated preview deployments.
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Storage
R2
S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees - a quiet revolution.
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Database
D1
Serverless SQLite at the edge, distributed and delightfully simple.
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Data
KV
Globally distributed key-value store, reads returned in milliseconds.
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Security
Turnstile
A privacy-friendly CAPTCHA alternative that's free and nearly invisible.
The developer experience
What it actually feels like to build on Cloudflare day to day.
- Free tier that's actually usable. Ship a real side project without a credit card or a ticking trial clock.
- Documentation that respects your time. Copy-pasteable examples, sensible defaults, and answers where you'd expect them.
- Local-first development.
wrangler devruns the same runtime locally that runs at the edge. - Ship in one command. From clone to global deployment in minutes, not a multi-day infra project.
# Local dev with the same runtime that runs at the edge
$ wrangler dev
# Ship to the global network in one command
$ wrangler deploy
# Scaffold a new project
$ npm create cloudflare@latest my-app
✓ Deployed my-app (2.41s)
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