Cloudflare Pages Static Website Builder

Static Website Hosting on Cloudflare Pages.

01

Speed and SEO

Static sites are faster and speed is a known Google metric particularly on mobile. YouDoPhoto static sites achieve a 100% Lighthouse score.

02

Secure

Static sites are secure and are not targeted which in turn reduces wasteful traffic and bandwidth. Its a win for you and the environment.

03

Cost Effective

Reduce your costs with YouDoPhoto and the Cloudflare free plan which is always free with limits for storage, hosting, SSL certificate, CDN and a custom domain.

Cloudflare Pages vs Workers?

What's the difference between Cloudflare Pages and Workers.

Cloudflare Workers is a serverless execution platform which can be used to host a static website using the Cloudflare CLI using the Wrangler function to deploy to workers a sub domain. Cloudflare pages is the newer dedicated static website hosting product which is integrated with workers to run serverless functions. YouDoPhoto integrates with both workers and pages and supports deployment to a pages.dev, workers.dev or custom domain.

By default Cloudflare Pages is integrated with GitHub and GitLab.  In order to publish a website Cloudflare builds a static site from a git repository, therefore a user has to update a git repository in order to update a website. This approach requires the user to set up a content management system. YouDoPhoto headless CMS resolves this by direct upload via the CLI from your local build folder. Direct upload means that you are not dependent upon the Cloudflare and GitHub free plan 500 build limit.

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Cloudflare Pages

Cloudflare Pages is arguably the fastest CDN available and the pages product provides a simple solution for static hosting. With YouDoPhoto it is possible to setup and deploy to the Cloudflare Pages platform in 5 minutes.

The Cloudflare Pages uniquely includes a non-profit domain name registry. If you transfer your domain to Cloudflare your ongoing fees are the wholesale price. The registry is integrated with Cloudflare Name Servers which makes setting up the custom domain very simple.

Cloudflare Pages is ideal for small business static sites. The free usage plan includes 100,000 requests per day and no build fees with YouDoPhoto direct upload.

  • CLI Integration.
  • Free hosting plan.
  • Non-profit custom domain.
  • SSL Certificate.
Cloudflare Setup
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Cloudflare Storage

Pages uploads each file on your site to Cloudflare’s globally distributed network to deliver a low latency experience to every user that visits your site. Cloudflare Pages includes projects which can be used to create draft versions for testing prior to production. Each project can contain up to 20,000 files. YouDoPhoto allows you to switch projects to build and deploy simplifying site upgrades.

After a project has been created YouDoPhoto builds a static version of the site locally before deploying using the Cloudflare Pages CLI to synchronise the local build folder with the Cloudflare Pages storage. 

  • Free plan up to 20,000 files.
  • Maximum file size 25MB
  • Select Pages projects.
  • Verify DNS and SSL status.
Pages Domain
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Cloudflare CDN

Single Click Deploy to the Cloudflare Pages CDN directly from YouDoPhoto.

1

Custom Domain and Sub Domains supported

Custom domains or Cloudflare subdomain using your project name for example youdocms.pages.dev.

2

Base URL check and Robots.txt

Avoid uploading a locally built site to production. Before deployment the base URL is checked against the deployment target and a robots.txt file is created to enable/disable indexing by search engines.

3

Direct Upload

YouDoPhoto  single click deploy to Cloudflare invokes the Cloudflare CLI to synchronise your local build folder with Cloudflare Pages CDN.