CYes. Cloudflare has its own at-cost / no markup registrar you can use as well, it's like $10/year for com or something pretty cheap.
Some Cloudflare products like Pages or Workers have default pages.dev/workers.dev urls you can use, but for the base CDN product/that you can point at any origin you need to have your own domain
Some Cloudflare products like Pages or Workers have default pages.dev/workers.dev urls you can use, but for the base CDN product/that you can point at any origin you need to have your own domain
AHow does a cloudflare cdn url look like got a few examples?
CWhat do you mean?
AHow a cloudflare cdn url looks like
ISomething.workers.dev
CCloudflare CDN is a pull CDN. Your requests go to Cloudflare, and then Cloudflare if needed reaches out to your origin. Since the requests go to Cloudflare first it can also handle security and such
CThat's Workers, not cdn
IMy bad, didn’t read thoroughly
AI see what kind of urls are there available?
CFor example https://discord.com/ is behind Cloudflare CDN. All requests go through the CDN and then to Google Cloud which is what Discord uses (probably, or some other host)
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AI see but I do not want to purchase a .com domain
AI want to quickly boot things up
Aif possible something like iamworkingonthisproject.workers.dev
CThat's just for Workers
CIf you want the core CDN and such you need your own domain
ARight so there are no cloudflare hosted domains i could use
CNot like Bunny or Cloudfront has yea
Ai saw someone running a website before on pages.dev i think
CThat's using Cloudflare Pages
Aand also one before on workers.dev
CYou would have to have static html, or using Functions/Workers
CNot the normal CDN, you don't have the normal cdn features
AInteresting so there are products like that available
AWhat more?
ASimilar products that allow you to get a website on a cloudflare domain
CThink of it this way: The Cloudflare CDN is a http request pipeline. It can do a ton of things with optimizing requests, caching, redirecting, etc. To get the full experience, you need your own domain. For the free plan, you need to also let them control your DNS.
Cloudflare offers specific products like Workers and Pages which are behind the CDN and have some of its features but they're specific offerings, like Workers lets you execute serverless code. You don't have full control over the CDN in those cases.
For workers.dev and such it's mostly recommended not to use them due to that lack of control, and instead to use Custom Domain on your own Cloudflare protected website to get the full security features and such. No way around it
Cloudflare offers specific products like Workers and Pages which are behind the CDN and have some of its features but they're specific offerings, like Workers lets you execute serverless code. You don't have full control over the CDN in those cases.
For workers.dev and such it's mostly recommended not to use them due to that lack of control, and instead to use Custom Domain on your own Cloudflare protected website to get the full security features and such. No way around it
IThe gist is, you need a domain to begin with to use most cloudflare features.
Cloudflare is the middleman between your server and the user, if you have no servers (domain points to it), the middleman can’t do much for you.
Cloudflare is the middleman between your server and the user, if you have no servers (domain points to it), the middleman can’t do much for you.
