For the last couple months, I've used Cloudflare Workers Sites to host one of my static sites, and I'm planning to migrate several more onto it. For those who don't know, Cloudflare Workers is their service that answers web queries by running server-side javascript that you've uploaded. It also comes with Workers KV, a very fast key-value storage database (like redis) that the server-side javascript can query.

So then, they said why not just upload your static site into the KV database, where the key might be "/index.html" and the value is the html content of that page. Then have a short javascript that reads from that KV and returns the requested page. They wrote some client-side scripts to simplify the uploading, and Workers Sites was born!

I love how your content is automatically replicated to all of their datacenters and loads super-fast from everywhere in the world. I also love that it's really cheap.

But the downside is how some features in Cloudflare's control panel don't work if you're hosting your static site this way. For example, I wanted to use the Page Rules to redirect /page1.html to /page2.html. I also wanted to use Page Rules to set browser caching for *.jpg files. But it turns out that Cloudflare Workers execute code before the Page Rules feature does, so it doesn't work! I had to solve both issues by changing their default javascript to build in redirects and browser caching manually. Not too hard, but annoying.