#Hello, I am interested in cloudflare CDN

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tacit dock
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Yes. Cloudflare has its own at-cost / no markup registrar you can use as well, it's like $10/year for com or something pretty cheap.
Some Cloudflare products like Pages or Workers have default pages.dev/workers.dev urls you can use, but for the base CDN product/that you can point at any origin you need to have your own domain

serene viper
tacit dock
serene viper
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How a cloudflare cdn url looks like

steel kelp
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Something.workers.dev

tacit dock
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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

tacit dock
steel kelp
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My bad, didn’t read thoroughly

serene viper
tacit dock
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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)

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serene viper
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I want to quickly boot things up

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if possible something like iamworkingonthisproject.workers.dev

tacit dock
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That's just for Workers

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If you want the core CDN and such you need your own domain

serene viper
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Right so there are no cloudflare hosted domains i could use

tacit dock
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Not like Bunny or Cloudfront has yea

serene viper
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i saw someone running a website before on pages.dev i think

tacit dock
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That's using Cloudflare Pages

serene viper
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and also one before on workers.dev

tacit dock
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You would have to have static html, or using Functions/Workers

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Not the normal CDN, you don't have the normal cdn features

serene viper
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Interesting so there are products like that available

serene viper
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Similar products that allow you to get a website on a cloudflare domain

tacit dock
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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