I never knew just how much CloudFlare can do, and for free-to-cheap "paid worker" add-on $5/mo., until I created an missing persons map and aggregated/deduped DB (from DOJ, FBI, etc.).
To get it done without too long of a learning curve FBOFW I used Streamlit, which isn't a regular website served up like others.
So with AI help I set up like 29k+ preview cards to unfurl on social media when a deep url (a case) is shared... then I set up the same amount as larger, full-page HTML summaries a person or webcrawler can see before being dumped onto a 10MB first-tie visit (and much better SEO).
All served up by CF's "edge" before ever winding up at my app/site, actual, yet.
All that still fitting freely on CF's *free tier* until I either pile more crap on it, or if the previews start taking more than 9.9ms CPU time. I was up to 7.3ms so got to be a big-spender at $5/mo. so if that crept up or went viral in terms of daily requests (100,000 daily free requests though, too).
And that's just scratching the surface of what it does. I'd never have known while just adding security layer to a Wordpress site.
But that storage and worker capacity on the free or cheap $5 worker tier can used for all sorts of cool things like circumvent the need for a $25 paid dashboard sub and tell it to serve custom error pages if your whole site is down. Custom error messages are locked out until paying for $25 dashboard subscription, but if you make them up yourself and use a lightweight worker it can do the same thing.
Sorry, just have been exploring Cloudflare's possibilities and have been pretty enabled by it with a little dummy help from Claude.
Great to see you around, still.
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