Cloudflare has a free plan that most people barely scratch the surface of. You get 100,000 requests a day — that's enough to run a real service, not just a toy project. On top of that: storage, file hosting, scheduled tasks, even a little database. All free.
If you have a website and need a contact form, a booking system, or any little automation running behind the scenes — this handles it without paying for a server. And it's fast, because your code runs in over 300 cities around the world.
Think of it like having a tiny assistant in every country, ready to respond instantly when someone visits your site or fills in a form.
Small, quiet things. A form handler that saves leads and notifies us on Slack. A link shortener. A little service that checks if a website is online. Things that would be overkill to build a whole server for, but too custom for an off-the-shelf tool.
The nice part: once it's set up, it just runs. No maintenance, no bills, no servers to watch.