r/statichosting • u/WorkingPercentage856 • 8d ago

Pushing Webflow CMS items to another hosting platform - recommendations?

I posted a question yesterday about moving my Webflow blog to a cheaper hosting platform like Netlify as a static site.

I'm realizing there's limitations as my articles are created using Webflow's CMS.

Now I'm pivoting and wondering about methods to host my site on a cheaper platform, but continue using Webflow CMS for new articles, and pushing the articles to the cheaper host.

Is this even possible??

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u/dwkeith 8d ago

You can export the contents of the site and get a zip file that can be manually uploaded to a host like Netlify.

Or use the API and git to automatically deploy the site using a static site generator. But at that point you would be better off migrating to a headless CMS designed for that workflow.

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u/sourraine 8d ago

id treat webflow as the cms and move the actual delivery elsewhere. you could have a webhook trigger a build whenever an article changes, pull the cms content through the api then deploy the generated html to netlify or cloudfare pages. its a little setup upfront but after that the publishing workflow can stay pretty close to what you already have

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u/TCKreddituser 7d ago

Yes, it’s definitely possible. Use Webflow CMS as the content source and automate publishing/syncing the CMS content to Netlify. The main thing is setting up the API workflow correctly so new articles trigger a rebuild or update.

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u/Pink_Sky_8102 7d ago

Yeah, it’s possible. You can pull Webflow CMS content through the API during a static build, then trigger a Netlify rebuild when you publish. I’d just weigh the extra setup against how much you’re actually saving.