Hasty Treat - Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare

In this Hasty Treat, Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare — which services he uses, which ones he doesn’t, why, and more!

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Show Notes

2:45 - What do you personally use Cloudflare for?

• DNS provider
• Domain registration at cost
• Caching
• DDoS protection
• Hiding server IP address
• Free HTTPS
• Firewall rules
• Scrape shield
• Lightweight stats
• Serverless functions
• DNS
• Cloudflare Warp

16:40 - What are you not using?

• KV storage
• Video streaming
• Deep customization around blocking/errors

19:49 - How do you set it up?

Links

• Cloudflare
• Beginner Javascript
• Digital Ocean
• DNS Simple
• Let’s Encrypt
• Syntax Ep 224: Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1
• Begin
• 7-Eleven hit “Dance The Slurp”

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