Cloudflare Pages vs Vercel for solo founders

Solo founder constraints

You need previews for pull requests, predictable bills, and a path to ship when your PC is busy. Enterprise sales calls and opaque overage emails waste weeks.

Both Cloudflare Pages and Vercel can host a modern front end. The difference shows up in bandwidth pricing, worker limits, and how painful it is to attach a custom domain with email DNS already living elsewhere.

When Pages fits

Choose Pages when you already use Workers, KV, or R2 and want one vendor for HTML plus APIs. The free tier is generous for brochure sites and content hubs. Favokres itself leans on this model so publishing continues while gaming PCs stay light.

When Vercel fits

Choose Vercel when your team lives in Next.js preview comments and you value polished DX over lowest egress cost. Watch image optimization and serverless invocation counts on content-heavy blogs.

Migration checklist

1. Inventory environment variables and secrets.

2. Confirm ISR or on-demand revalidation behavior.

3. Test locale prefixes (/tr, /fr) after cutover.

4. Warm critical URLs after DNS flips.

FAQ

Do I need both? Rarely. Dual hosting doubles failure modes.

Will Google care which CDN I use? Crawl care about speed and stable URLs more than brand names.

Can I keep KV content off the laptop? Yes — treat KV as source of truth and sync after deploy.

Next steps

Pick the host that matches your existing Cloudflare or Next toolchain, measure LCP on a real post, then keep shipping guides instead of re-platforming monthly.

Operational notes for operators

Keep a changelog of pricing, hosting, and disclosure edits. Solo founders lose trust when the public page drifts from the invoice email. Schedule a monthly review: broken CTAs, stale screenshots, and locale prefixes that 404 after deploys.

Prefer one solid update over a burst of thin posts. Favokres quality gates exist so the Worker storefront stays readable while your PC stays free for other work.

Measure what matters: successful checkouts, refund rate, and support macros triggered by the experiment — not only sessions. If a test hurts trust metrics, roll back within the window you promised the team.

Document the owner of each URL. When someone leaves, the next editor should know which affiliate relationships are live and which covers are reserved.

Operational notes for operators

Operational notes for operators