I am not a regular blogger by any means, averaging a post every 5-6 months. I have been using Medium for a while now before they became popular and paywall became a thing. Since then, I wasn’t very fond of their platform and I have been looking for alternatives for a while now.
I recently decided to leverage AI agents to setup my blog site the way I want it! 💪🏽
Lately I have been playing a lot with Cloudflare and its services which has generous free tier and I have been loving it. Based on quick research Astro seemed like a good fit given they were recently acquired by Cloudflare.
Astro and Cloudflare Workers
The setup wasn’t smooth sailing because of the custom theme I chose called Devosfera. It did not come with a Cloudflare Workers adapter and I had to do some custom configuration to make it work.
Another funny thing was that the theme was built by a Spanish author and the labels were in Spanish. I had to translate them to English which was a fun experience.
Verdict
Overall I think it was worth the effort and I am happy with the initial result. Here are some key benefits I can think of right now:
- Full control over my content and how it’s presented
- Complete customization of design, layout, and functionality
- No paywalls or algorithms deciding what readers see
- Ownership of my data and SEO benefits
- Cost-effective with Cloudflare’s generous free tier
- Scalability without platform limitations
Here is the GitHub repo that serves this blog site:
hossains-dev-bytes
Astro blogging site hosted using Cloudflare workers.