Hugo Static Site on Cloudflare: Why I chose Cloudflare Pages and How I Did It in 10 Minutes

A Hugo Solution for a New Blog? But How?

You want to write a blog. You have your articles. Or you have the desire to write but haven’t decided what to use yet. There are dozens of solutions made for this, of course, but personally, I preferred Hugo. Hugo is actually an application written in GoLang that’s used to create static sites. It converts the Markdown-formatted articles you write into HTML. Because of this, your site has MAXIMUM SPEED to serve an HTML response. Of course, you also need to take into account your site images and the third-party things you use. But in our world where speed is important for SEO, I decided that HUGO would be both sufficient and beautiful, and I started using it.

So We’re Going to Publish It?

Let’s publish it, but what will we use? We can host it ourselves. If we set that solution aside, what can we put in its place?

• Cloudflare Pages
• Netlify

There are many other solutions besides these, of course, but the best advice I can give you is these two. Since I tried Cloudflare pages, I’ll tell you about Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Pages

You heard right, Cloudflare easily does the build process of your Hugo site through its pages service. Moreover, it takes every update in your site’s main/master branch as a build process. It builds and, moreover, you can assign the page-domain it creates here to a custom domain. This way, you can turn a great anti-attack system into perfect hosting for your blog.

Cloudflare’s Advantages

• It’s clear that it’s the most important organization in the world in terms of anti-attack.
• Great infrastructure that provides DNS service seamlessly for domain control.
• It has great infrastructure for builds, whether for Hugo or another system.
• You can do all of these comfortably with the free plan.
• It’s protected by default for AI bots.

Cloudflare’s Disadvantages

• It can go down, albeit very rarely :) (Cuts off the entire internet)
• You need to be a bit familiar with the dashboard because it has so many features :)

Final word…

If you want to host a blog and go live effortlessly, Cloudflare Pages is one of the points I would recommend most. But I will continue to write experiments and blog posts for Netlify and accordingly other static site generators. Keep following me :)