Cloudflare Pages is one of the best free hosting options available for static sites. Combined with Astro’s blazing-fast static output, it is a powerful pairing that costs nothing and deploys globally.

Prerequisites

• A GitHub account
• A Cloudflare account (free tier)
• Your Astro project in a GitHub repository
• A domain (optional but recommended)

Step 1 — Push your project to GitHub

If your project is not already on GitHub, create a new repository and push your code:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/your-username/your-repo.git
git push -u origin main

Step 2 — Connect to Cloudflare Pages

1. Log in to dash.cloudflare.com
2. Go to Workers & Pages → Create application → Pages
3. Click Connect to Git and authorise GitHub
4. Select your repository
5. Set these build settings:
   • Build command: npm run build
   • Build output directory: dist
   • Node.js version: 20 (set in Environment Variables as NODE_VERSION=20)
6. Click Save and Deploy

Cloudflare will build and deploy your site. Every push to main triggers a new deployment automatically.

Step 3 — Add your custom domain

1. In your Pages project, go to Custom domains
2. Click Set up a custom domain
3. Enter tensorflake.com
4. Cloudflare will automatically add the DNS records if your domain is on Cloudflare

Your site will be live at https://tensorflake.com within minutes.

Automatic Deployments

Once set up, your workflow is:

1. Write a new post in src/content/article/
2. git add . && git commit -m "new post" && git push
3. Cloudflare detects the push and redeploys — usually in under 60 seconds

No servers to manage. No costs. Global CDN included.