Static site hosting, CI pipelines and edge platforms, from the first deploy through rollback — including the settings that break advertising without reporting an error.
Static 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, 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, 2026Git push to live site in under five minutes, with unlimited bandwidth and no bandwidth bill. The exact configuration, plus the four settings that silently break things later.
Sep 23, 2026Every platform documents where environment variables apply and how to encrypt them. None states plainly the consequence for a static site: anything available at build time is embedded in the output. Here is which variables are safe, which are not, and the two operational rules that catch people out.
Sep 23, 2026A static site has no server to write redirect rules on, so the platform reads them from a file — with its own syntax, its own default status code, and a precedence rule that decides which rule wins. Here is what Cloudflare Pages documents, compared with Netlify and Vercel.
Sep 23, 2026A static host has no server to configure, but it still sends response headers. Five worth setting, one that silently breaks monetisation, and a file limit that fails without telling you.
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