I've found cloudflare pages to be overwhelming to work with. There are two seeming flavours of it and the differences aren't explained well or easy to find, and many parts of the documentation being outright incorrect. An explanation regarding how this was done would have been great in this post.
In an announcement[0] earlier this year, Cloudflare essentially put Cloudflare Pages on life support and began advising potential CFP users to build sites on the newly enhanced Cloudflare Workers platform instead.
I later wrote about this, particularly as it related to Hugo users.[1][2]
My mom was paying a few hundred a year to Wix for a basic single page, static site. I finally decided that it was a waste of money and went down the Hugo-on-cloudflare route a few months ago. Can't beat it - all she's paying for now is the domain.
The only issue I had encountered was moving the domain from wix. If memory serves me right, I had to point the NS records to CF to do the transfer, and Wix doesn't allow control over them. I ended up transferring over to Porkbun instead, but using CF for DNS.
Hugo took some getting used to. Most of the templates I had seen were for blogs, but "hugo-scroll" works like a charm for the basic single page site.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 36.5 ms ] threadI agree site speed is very important, but I don't buy into the SEO argument. Some of the most popular sites in the world take ages to load.
I later wrote about this, particularly as it related to Hugo users.[1][2]
[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/full-stack-development-on-cloudf...
[1]: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2025/05/pages-workers-again/
[2]: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2025/07/hugo-sites-cloudflar...
The only issue I had encountered was moving the domain from wix. If memory serves me right, I had to point the NS records to CF to do the transfer, and Wix doesn't allow control over them. I ended up transferring over to Porkbun instead, but using CF for DNS.
Hugo took some getting used to. Most of the templates I had seen were for blogs, but "hugo-scroll" works like a charm for the basic single page site.