Every guide here comes from an actual deployment: screenshots from real dashboards, real bills, real load times. No spec-sheet rewrites.
50 guides across 5 topics.
Managed, shared and cloud hosting put through the same tests.
11 guides Domains & DNSRegistrars, DNS records and email setup that actually work.
9 guides DeploymentStatic sites, CI pipelines and edge platforms, step by step.
12 guides PerformanceCore Web Vitals, caching and cost per thousand visits.
9 guides ToolsSelf-hosted software and utilities worth your time.
9 guidesA static site looks like it needs no backup because the files are reproducible. The reproducible part is true and incomplete — the things you cannot rebuild from source are the DNS zone, the platform configuration, and the secrets, and all three live only in a dashboard.
Sep 23, 2026Static hosting is sold as unmetered, and the platforms meter three different things under that headline. Some count bytes, some count requests, some count neither — and a site that is cheap on one model can be expensive on another. Here is the accounting, and the formula.
Sep 23, 2026Cloudflare's own Pages documentation tells you to avoid setting up custom caching, which sounds like a non-answer until you understand that most of the cache is already decided for you. Here is which layers are yours, which are not, and one documented combination that silently cancels itself.
Sep 23, 2026A Pages custom domain can read pending while serving traffic correctly, and active with an empty DNS record list. Here is what to check instead of the status badge.
Sep 23, 2026ALIAS is not a DNS record type — it is a vendor extension that disappears when you change providers. Here is what the standards actually forbid at the apex, how Cloudflare's CNAME flattening works instead, and the three failure modes that look like DNS issues but are not.
Sep 23, 2026Most Core Web Vitals advice is about fixing what broke. These are the decisions that are cheap now and expensive later — especially the one about reserved ad space.
Sep 23, 2026Custom domain setup looks like the same three steps everywhere. The apex domain is where the platforms quietly diverge — one uses a flattened CNAME, one asks for an A record, one tells you apex domains cannot use CNAME at all. Here is what each documents, and the error you get for skipping the association step.
Sep 23, 2026Keep your repository and your own CI, and stop inheriting a build image you cannot inspect. A complete workflow, the two secrets it needs, and what breaks a first run.
Sep 23, 2026A CI job that builds and deploys is not a pipeline that catches anything — it just moves failures to the place where users see them. Here are the four checks worth gating on, how required status checks actually behave, and the two configuration mistakes that make them silently useless.
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