DigitalOcean Droplets is $16/mo cheaper.
That’s $192/year. Cloudflare costs 5× as much.
DNS, a CDN, Workers, and object storage in front of the rest of the stack.
Try itThe free DNS and CDN tier covers a lot of small sites
Workers can handle a request without your origin server
One dashboard for the domain and the cache
Workers are not a full replacement for a normal backend
Caching rules can hide a bug until you bypass them
Simple cloud VMs (Droplets) with predictable pricing from $4/mo.
Try itClear pricing compared with AWS/GCP
Fast to get a server online
Great docs for beginners and indies
App Platform if you don't want to manage VMs
Solid bandwidth allowances
Fewer regions and services than AWS/Azure
Not the cheapest at large scale
Less set-and-forget than pure PaaS like Vercel
Advanced networking/IAM is thinner than big clouds