Following up the recent release of their non-tracking analytics tool, Cloudflare Pages is a new hosting platform for building websites that doesn’t require having to fuss with all of the particulars of cloud hosting.

I use (and am quite happy with!) Netlify to host Flicker Fusion and dig the JAMstack approach. Once your site is in a git repo, deploying it is simple, and you get all of the built-in benefits of using git. I spent the last few months chipping away at a site redesign and when I was ready to deploy, it was a matter of merging the beta branch to main and pushing. And because everything is a static file that lives on a global CDN, I don’t have to worry about getting Fireballed.

Like I said, I’m very happy with Netlify and have no intention of moving over to Cloudflare but I’m happy to see more providers embracing the approach. Cloudflare is also integrating their serverless functions framework, which will make fully dynamic web apps possible. There’s never been a better time to build a website that doesn’t rely on the perverse incentives of the big platforms.