Nginx is free. Cloudflare is Est. $20/mo.
$240/year for Cloudflare.
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
Open-source web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer used in front of most production apps.
Try itFree and battle-tested open source
Excellent reverse proxy performance
Huge community and examples (very popular)
Pairs well with Docker and VPS hosts
Can serve static sites on its own
Config files take practice
You manage the server yourself
Advanced features need Plus or extras
Not a full cloud host by itself