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“Host” WordPress on Cloudflare for Free

by redact207 on 6/24/21, 6:42 AM with 15 comments

• by csomar on 6/24/21, 9:27 AM

  Title is click-bait. This is about hosting a "static" website on Cloudflare page (similar to Github pages) and not hosting WordPress which requires PHP, storage and a database.

  PS: You could actually do better: Use Github pages and Cloudflare pages and do DNS load balancing between the two.

• by ddnb on 6/24/21, 9:34 AM

  The major thing holding static "wordpress" or any rather simple site back is definitely forms. I'm wondering what the best solution to this would be? My guess is forms hosted elsewhere loaded in via JS? Anyone have recommendations on what service to use for this?

• by nikolay on 6/24/21, 8:15 PM

  WordPress is the biggest pile of spaghetti that's literally everywhere. In some modest setup, it makes 500+ calls to MySQL and thus it can never be ever fast or scale well. Another challenge is that it will always exceed whatever amount of memory you allocate for it. Storing PHP arrays in database columns is just sickening!

• by toastal on 6/24/21, 10:48 AM

  While I do like the accessibility of ‘free’ (as in beer) for people that otherwise couldn’t afford to have a ‘voice’ with their blog, I believe it’s unwise to suggest/endorse more people use a centralizing platform like Cloudflare which is breaking the internet for other people who want to be ‘free’ (as in freedom) to listen in a secure way. Cloudflare is actively hostile towards Tor and VPNs (also hosting the hardest CAPTCHA system out there for real humans). We’ve recently in the last month seen the ramifications of these CDNs middling between too many sites with Fastly and Bunny going down.

  For more reasons to not use Cloudflare: https://git.honeypot.im/crimeflare/stop-cloudflare/src/branc...

• by rado on 6/24/21, 8:46 AM

  Good to see simplification of static WP hosting.