Articles on cloudflare
Every GhostPane article about cloudflare — 5 in total.
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How to build web analytics on Cloudflare Workers
Analytics is a write-heavy workload behind a read-heavy interface. On a free tier that constraint decides almost every design choice, including one that is not obvious.
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What self-hosted analytics actually costs to run on Cloudflare
A pageview-by-pageview breakdown of Workers, D1 and Durable Object usage — why the write pattern decides everything, and where the free tier finally runs out.
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The free analytics options for Cloudflare, compared honestly
Three genuinely free ways to measure a site on Cloudflare, each with a different ceiling. Knowing which ceiling you will hit first is the whole decision.
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Counting unique visitors with Durable Objects
Two edge locations each seeing one visitor cannot tell whether that is one person or two. Solving that properly turns out to give you session stitching and real-time for nothing.
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Using Cloudflare D1 for analytics: what works and what does not
D1 is SQLite with a request budget. That combination rules out the obvious analytics schema and makes a less obvious one work very well.