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8 free magic features Cloudflare that you have been missing

1. email forwarding

This one is my fav 🧡
Cloudflare forwards all incoming emails from any of my domain inbox to a single gmail.

E.g. you can email me at alex(@)isora.me or dsa123(@)isora.me and i will receive those.

email forwarding

2. CDN

I was too lazy to set up an S3 image storage for startupswiki.org and got charged $29 for AWS EC2 traffic in March.
Fixed that by setting up image caching in Cloudflare. Now all images are stored there, and I pay pennies to AWS (sorry, Jeff! 😎).

CDN

3. Static hosting.

You can host your simple html+css+images site there for free.
I host saas.page there.
I like it because it is as simple as drag and drop a zip.
Yes, I know about github pages, but I'm too lazy to configure git, okay 😁

Static hosting

4. buying domains

Technically, Cloudflare is the cheapest domain registrar in the world! They charge no extra fee besides the ICANN's base price. So it is $10.44/y for a dotcom.
I like it so much I pushed it on the first place on my directory domainregistrarslist.com 😁

buying domains

5. invisible CAPTCHA

I use it to protect uploadfile.click from bots. It was an easy walk installing it with Cursor AI (God bless vibe coding! 🙂)

invisible CAPTCHA

6. Always Online™

Caches a static version of a website so it is available in case of an origin server downtime.
Very useful when you have 20+ websites to take care of 🥴

Always Online

7. free storage

Cloudflare R2 is a free AWS S3 alternative. It costs $0 per GB of bandwidth. I like this type of pricing models 😁
I use it to store static files and user uploads for @paracast_io and as the main storage for uploadfile.click

free storage

8. web analytics

Clunky and inaccurate. But it works! 😁
If you are too lazy setting up analytics, and you just need the basic numbers, use this! No scripts, no sign-ups. Just click a button and start gathering visits.

web analytics

Thanks for reading my post!
Let’s connect on 𝕏 https://x.com/alexanderisorax and Bsky https://bsky.app/@isora.me
Ciao! 😁

on April 11, 2025
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