Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on serverless Cloudflare

Given that this uses multiple Cloudflare services, is anyone very familiar with their pricing? The readme lists a "generous free tier", but I always have to wonder what happens once you fall outside of that tier. I remember that R2 is cheap (one of its distinguishing features), but wonder if any of the other services suddenly become $50 a month or something.

It seems there is a growing movement of headless CMSs, but I am afraid of vendor lock-in with Cloudflare and the like.<p>Are there any other CMS&#x27;s that people are using these days? Perhaps looking forward to be using in 2023?

This looks fantastic. I just started a podcast and was planning to test publishing with cloudflare since it seems much cheaper than the alternatives (and planning to backup to storj).<p>I will try this out this week!

Why mix the type of software (A CMS for certain use cases) with the distribution mechanism (Cloudflare Pages etc)?<p>Shouldn&#x27;t that be two seperate issues?

I use middleman[^1] + bulmaCSS + FontAwesome but host on github using the `github.io` domain and upload podcasts to &quot;archive.org&quot;[^2]. I choose this setup to make sure content will survive as much as possible.<p>ps. You might want to consider a donation to the internet archive, see [^2] - no affiliation, just a happy user.<p>[^1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;middlemanapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;middlemanapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>[^2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;</a>

Nice setup! I&#x27;ve been following Vercel and Cloudflare trying to sync up their v8 isolates runtime: CF is going to be a great option for running these &quot;Edge Style&quot; React apps once stuff stabilizes.

Super cool. Thanks for sharing, going to set this up over the weekend!

Seems very nice! Looking forward to have something like Supabase or Pocketbase deployed directly on Cloudflare! <i>fingers crossed</i>

Very cool! I like how there is a nice visual editor. I hate using markdown for blogging.

I just use PicoCMS and upload my markdown files through FTP. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything out there that can compete with the simplicity of this solution, not even static site generators.<p>It uses templates with Twig, and it&#x27;s very simple PHP so you can host it anywhere.<p>I once hit the frontpage of a big aggregator from my country and it handled like it was nothing from a very cheap shared hosting.<p>From my Linux Mint laptop, all it takes is to open my FTP on Thunar (which involves a click in my sidebar), and I&#x27;m navigating it like any other file system. Right click, create file, write &amp; format my post, and save the file.<p>Viola, it&#x27;s published.<p>Oh, and you can mix Markdown with HTML and JS in your posts. Less stuff you need to learn.

&quot;Self-hosted on Cloudflare&quot; feels like an oxymoron. I know it&#x27;s common for people to consider hosting on VPS and the like to be self-hosting, but attached to proprietary services seems to be a step further, I think something being portable between providers has to be a minimum for the term.<p>I like the idea of having web content you can put up with minimal configuration and cost but we have to draw a line for that definition somewhere.

How is it self hosted and hosted cloudflare at the same time ?

&quot;Self hosted&quot; and &quot;serverless Cloudflare&quot; each have their attractions, but they are contradicting terms, unless I&#x27;m confused.

This isn&#x27;t directly related to the post, but it&#x27;s a CMS related question: does anybody know of a simple &quot;static file&quot; CMS that also lets you deploy server side javascript functions? It&#x27;s a weird use case, so I suspect there may not be. I&#x27;ve solved it by using a static site generator and a nginx reverse proxy to a node server - but it&#x27;s a lot of complexity for my use case (using stripe to sell stuff, but stripe checkout requires server side session creation).<p>Edit: Netlify Edge functions seems to be pretty much exactly what I&#x27;m describing (drop js&#x2F;ts files in a directory, deploy with your static site). The only problem with it for me is it&#x27;s not self-hosted. Serveless functions would work, tho the separate deployment adds a layer of complexity, and I&#x27;d have to learn CORS finally lol

Please don&#x27;t use this unless you wish to exclude those who would like to enjoy your content but also respect their privacy. Cloudflare continue to block Tor traffic by default. It is discriminatory against innocent users and harmful to freedom of speech (because speech also requires the ability to listen).

I use bearblog.dev, super minimalistic, markdown first, customizable...not self hosted but.. nice overall!