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The reception is positive and specific: the largest group of 244 people praise tools that just work, with the free tier and protection next. Problems centre on bot detection and challenges that block real readers, and comparisons run against other hosts and Vercel, often over cost.

First written 27 Oct · what changed · from 261 posts by 244 people

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Tone· 124 posts from 121 people· written 27 Oct

How do people feel about Cloudflare?

Praise for tools that just work is the largest theme, at 56 people, followed by the free tier (27 people) and protection and uptime (22 people); plain enthusiasm is smaller at 13 people, and 5 people are happy with a caveat.

Specific tools carry the praise: Workers and D1, the wrangler CLI, Cloudflare tunnels for exposing a local app or a home server, the EmDash CMS, and MCP servers that fetch a Worker's logs after a deploy. People describe small jobs finishing fast — a domain moved in under half an hour, a Docker container to a published site in 15 minutes — and one person working at a company that has used Cloudflare for over five years says it has never let them down.

The free tier is the next theme: one person lists Cloudflare storage among the few things they still pay for, a .com renewal is put at about $10, and several ask why so much is free at all. Protection and uptime comes third, and the PHP vulnerability scare brought posts from people glad their sites sit behind a WAF or a tunnel.

Plain enthusiasm is a smaller theme — recommendations with little reasoning attached, like "not even close". The caveats people add are specific: Workers builds that "sometimes it does crap out", a trap in Durable Objects, a first deploy that took hours, and a view that Vercel still wins for heavy backends.

  • Tools that just work57
  • Unbeatable free tier and low cost27
  • Trusted for protection and uptime22
  • Enthusiastic fans13
  • Happy, with a caveat5
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Wes Grimes@ncfrontiersman

We’ve been using them at work for over 5 years and they have never let us down. It’s hard to beat the cost/benefit ratio they provide. Also cloudflare workers will forever be an incredible architectural asset.

@levelsio@levelsio

As I posted before, I've cancelled almost all of the SaaS subscriptions for my business The only thing I still pay for as a business: - AI inference - Hetzner server hosting - Cloudflare storage - Backblaze backups - Taxes Now I started cancelling personal subscriptions too and just vibecoding my own versions or using Claude to take an open source project that does the same and then customize it for myself All I still pay for personally is: - Claude Code - YouTube (content) - Spotify (content) - Starlink (internet) - Phone eSIM - Personal cloud storage - Electricity and water (utility) - Taxes So if we summarize it for both, I only still pay for: - AI inference - Content - Cloud storage & hosting - Connectivity - Electricity & water - Taxes So to summarize all my money now goes to: - Content - Data centers - Power plants + water - Governments I think we'll be facing a tidal wave of cancellations once people find out how much money they can save It's just how the economy works

Peter Cruckshank@PeteCapeCod

Yeah I actually switched 1 of my main projects over to CF workers builds. It works pretty good, sometimes it does crap out though. The price is right, and it's nice to know my preview builds use the same pipeline

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Pain points· 54 posts from 53 people· written 27 Oct

What do people complain about with Cloudflare?

Bot detection is the most-mentioned problem, at 12 people, ahead of outages and reliability trouble (10 people) and challenges that block real readers (7 people); deploy traps, WAF rules breaking uploads and billing shocks make up the rest.

The bot-detection complaints are about misreading traffic: it can't tell crawlers from bot farms, a bot passed a captcha, datacenter address ranges get flagged while residential ones slip through, and CCBot is hard to enable. One person calls the managed rule "pretty aggressive" and wants exceptions for crawlers they trust.

Outages and reliability covers Cloudflare-caused downtime: DNS problems at a site, a Workers clock that didn't advance mid-request, remote desktop logging people out, and one long post asking whether Cloudflare is a single point of failure for the many sites on it. Challenges are next: a reading loop on an article, a Turnstile check returning 401 on a donation, and blocks that hit Brave and home IPs.

The PHP scare produced the WAF complaint — managed rules blocking multipart/form-data uploads, with a hand-written rule as the workaround. Deploy headaches mean preview branches, wrangler config traps, and changes that don't apply. Small counts cover a $6,773 bill with no budget alert, D1 limits "money can't fix", SSH sessions cut by app duration limits, and a crowded menu.

  • Bot detection gets it wrong13
  • Outages and reliability trouble10
  • Challenges and blocks stop real users7
  • Deployment and setup headaches6
  • WAF rules break form uploads5
  • Caching and rewriting surprises3
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mrgadget@mrgadgetstudio

CLOUDFLARE IS A SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE? 🤔 I worry about the risks of so many websites relying on Cloudflare. Their servers could be perfectly fine, yet a Cloudflare outage or attack could take them offline instantly. > What are the best ways to mitigate this risk and recover

mental blanking interval@vsync

lol it's been all day btw your Cloudflare (they always cause problems!) or whatever is on a hair trigger and blocking me half the time from even seeing the "site is down" message blocks Brave browser _and_ residential IP... have to use Firefox via mobile conn guys need help?

Shuvo Saha@shuvo_saha__

Deployment makes me cry like no other ... Since morning, i have been trying to get a preview deployment branch for my vercel and cloudflare workers. Now i am at a stage where i even forgot which url to put where, GOD HELP ME !!

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Alternatives· 62 posts from 60 people· written 27 Oct

What are the alternatives to Cloudflare?

Other hosts and PaaS are the biggest comparison, at 18 people, with domain registrars (11 people) and Vercel (10 people) behind; Vercel posts weigh its cost, and WordPress and Deno migrations follow.

In the host comparisons, Cloudflare is weighed against Railway, Lovable, Hostinger, GitHub Pages, AWS Lightsail and plain VPS setups like OVH with Coolify. Some come in — a Lovable-built app rebuilt on Cloudflare, a Railway user who started using Cloudflare once AI wrote the code, a GitHub Pages site moved after a certificate expired — while others say Cloudflare is "too limiting" or leave for a fixed-price VPS to avoid usage bills. Several keep Cloudflare for most sites and a VPS for the rest.

Registrars are a price comparison: GoDaddy is called "awful", Hostinger recommended only for promos, and a renewal survey puts a .com at a low at Cloudflare and a high at GoDaddy. People also move domains to Cloudflare for protection, though one finds too few domain types on offer.

Vercel comes up as a cost decision — a student facing free-plan limits, someone who "shifted to cloudflare because of costs" — and one view keeps Vercel for heavy backends. WordPress posts describe moving sites to Cloudflare Pages or EmDash, and Deno posts follow the team joining Cloudflare, with one Deno app migrated to Workers.

  • Other hosts and PaaS18
  • Domain registrars (GoDaddy, Hostinger, Namecheap)11
  • Vercel10
  • WordPress8
  • Deno8
  • AWS5
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Nadeem Bitar@shinzui

I just released the first stable version of my PaaS. I've wanted to build this for years. Platforms like Vercel and Cloudflare are too limiting, while Kubernetes and GCP require too much overhead for certain projects. I use GCP and Kubernetes extensively at work, but wanted a simpler abstraction built on top of both, without giving up control. It's also significantly cheaper to run and operate. link

Etemora@etemora_

Same .com, 9 registrars, very different renewal prices. Listed renewals (read Sep 26-Oct 4, 2026) run from $10.46 at Cloudflare to $22.99 at GoDaddy. Cost floor incl. ICANN's $0.20: $10.46. We read pricing pages; we didn't buy. link #domains

KEITO💻AIディレクター@keitowebai

Cloudflare EmDash CMSで新規サイト（自分のポートフォリオ）を作り直しました。 投稿、プラグイン、ウィジェットなど全てWordPressライクな管理画面。その上でセキュリティ最強。更新などもAIネイティブで凄く楽。運用もほぼ考えることなし。なのに無料。 特にClaude Codeファーストな設計になっているの最高に良い。 他のWebサイトも順次EmDashに乗り換えます。

Build A Goat@buildAgoat

Deno's whole team is joining Cloudflare, and the bit I care about is self-hosting. Ryan Dahl's celld, an open take on Workers and Durable Objects, is getting merged into workerd. Durable Objects spread across your own machines with one object storage bucket? I'd try that.

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Questions· 32 posts from 29 people· written 27 Oct

What do people ask about Cloudflare?

Practical how-to asks lead by far, at 21 people — whether a framework or tool runs on Cloudflare, whether an account is needed, one setup end to end; free-tier and cost questions (4 people) and what Workers is (2 people) are much smaller.

Most questions are about making something work on the platform: how SvelteKit goes, whether SSR runs on Workers in production, whether a blog sits on Pages, whether tunnels can be end to end, whether Workers for Platforms really isolates each app's D1, R2 and KV, and whether a Cloudflare rule can be written to block multipart requests. Account questions appear too — whether a tool needs a Cloudflare account, or whether an agent got in with an API key.

Cost questions ask whether a hobby or small app can run free, how long the free tier lasts, and what a given setup will cost. The Workers questions come from someone asking what it is at all, then confirming it is "more of a service" than a compiler, and from someone noticing the subdomain URLs. Two people ask what a Cloudflare model or measurement actually does.

  • How does this work on Cloudflare?21
  • Is it free, and what will it cost?4
  • What is Cloudflare Workers?4
  • What does this actually do or measure?3
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CC@CcVylree

even if you self-host, workers for platforms still funnels everything into a single cf account. curious how real the isolation actually is once agents start spinning up d1/r2/kv per app, or if it's just policy on top of shared bindings.

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Wishes· 11 posts from 10 people· written 27 Oct

What do people want from Cloudflare?

Wishes are scattered and small: the one that travelled furthest asks for a higher rate limit, and the rest come from one or two people each — a real npm rival in JSR, better profiling, integrations, scoped agent access, a way to let good bots past.

The requests are practical. Two people want better profiling tooling: profiles saved automatically to an R2 bucket, zoom and pan in the view, a less janky error state, and quicker access to artifacts. Two want integrations — a Laravel-style Cloudflare integration like Resend's, and OpenAI and Cloudflare teaming up more. Two hope Cloudflare invests in JSR as "a real competitor to npm".

The rest are single asks. One wants scoped OAuth for agents, arguing full account access "was never a sane default" for something acting for a customer. One wants a site to be able to declare a bot allowed, saying the captcha wall is where that person's browser-agent tests die. Others want an auth SDK, traces from containers flowing into the Workers observability stack, and a rate limit raised tenfold to ship software faster.

  • Make JSR a real npm rival2
  • Quicker artifacts and better profiling UI2
  • Integrations with other tools2
  • Scoped access for agents1
  • An allowlist for good bots1
  • An auth SDK1
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Dylan Garcia@_dylanga

some more feedback: 1. let me automatically save these profiles to an r2 bucket so I can just spam them until continuous profiling is live 2. let me zoom/pan/etc this view (first pic) 3. this error state is janky (second pic)

Delight.ai@GetDelightAI

Scoped OAuth for agents is overdue. Full account access was never a sane default for something acting on a customer's behalf. We build AI agents for support + sales at Delight, happy to share what's worked on the company side.

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In their words

How do people talk about Cloudflare?

The phrases people use most, counted once per person.

  1. 1“durable objects”4
  2. 2“cloudflare account”3
  3. 3“free tier”2
  4. 4“free plan”2
  5. 5“cloudflare tunnels”2
  6. 6“cloudflare caching”2
  7. 7“switch to cloudflare”2
  8. 8“multipart form-data”2
  9. 9“workers ai”2
  10. 10“cloudflare no doubt”2

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