#Hello, I am interested in cloudflare CDN
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How does a cloudflare cdn url look like got a few examples?
What do you mean?
How a cloudflare cdn url looks like
Something.workers.dev
Cloudflare 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
That's Workers, not cdn
My bad, didn’t read thoroughly
I see what kind of urls are there available?
For 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)
I see but I do not want to purchase a .com domain
I want to quickly boot things up
if possible something like iamworkingonthisproject.workers.dev
Right so there are no cloudflare hosted domains i could use
Not like Bunny or Cloudfront has yea
i saw someone running a website before on pages.dev i think
That's using Cloudflare Pages
and also one before on workers.dev
You would have to have static html, or using Functions/Workers
Not the normal CDN, you don't have the normal cdn features
Interesting so there are products like that available
What more?
Similar products that allow you to get a website on a cloudflare domain
Think 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