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Build a Fast AI App on Cloudflare
I love that with Cloudflare I can run everything — front-end, back-end, database, auth — all on their network without managing a single server. The app’s frontend is served on Cloudflare Pages (their static hosting), and the backend runs on Cloudflare Workers (serverless functions at the edge). Users log in via a form, and the authentication uses a cookie plus Cloudflare’s KV storage behind the scenes to keep sessions. User accounts and data live in Cloudflare D1, which is a SQL database Cloudflare provides. All these pieces talk to each other nicely on Cloudflare’s global network, so the app is snappy everywhere by default. Seriously, I’ve got zero servers to maintain — it’s all handled by Cloudflare’s platform.
Crazy Low Costs
Cloudflare has a ridiculously generous free tier for its developer platform. For example, their D1 database has usage-based pricing and a free daily allotment of reads/writes that cover a ton of app usage. In plain terms: you can prototype and even run a small production app without paying a cent while you’re under those limits. My app with a few hundred users barely dents those limits, so I’m literally running it for free right now. Even if we grow, the…
