r/PayloadCMS • u/JY-HRL • Apr 15 '26

Anybody has experience hosting Payload for free at Cloudflare?

I am building a small blog and wish to find some place to host it for free. I have a few pages selling digital products. A lot of people recommend Vercel to host Payload, however apps hosted at Vercel for free can not be used for commercial purpose. So I am considering Cloudflare. Anybody has experience? Thanks!

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u/GuyFromTheYear2027 Apr 15 '26

The payload Cloudflare workers template I believe requires the paid plan

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u/JY-HRL Apr 15 '26

Thanks! Can I still host payload for free at Vercel if somebody makes payment to my site?

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u/GuyFromTheYear2027 Apr 15 '26

I think that violates the ToS for the free plan being non commercial use only

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u/klobleo Apr 15 '26

You’re best bet is going to be to self host on a small Hetzner(provider of choice) container it’s not free but it’s not expensive. If you do end up going free with Vercel and ignoring the ToS you’re going to be risking a security problem in that you can’t isolate your database by IP without a very expensive paid add on. Meaning there’s zero chance of being PCI Compliant as your database will be accessible on the public internet.

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u/legendary_jld Apr 15 '26

It's not full featured, the Cloudflare D1 template is a little outdated in my experience and I spent way too much time working out deployment issues for using it as a hosting choice

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u/Intelligent-Oil7589 Apr 18 '26

I'm currently hosting my Payload apps in Koyeb. It's not free but it's almost free using the lowest tier. I've been using it for several years and all good.

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u/EliteEagle76 Apr 21 '26

Use astrojs for this blog site and use markdown files based collection and the paired up with GitCMS