--- title: "Hosting This Blog on Cloudflare Workers: Why & How I Did It" description: "A while ago I started messing with Cloudflare Workers. I have now moved this site permanently over to them." date: 2022-01-04T11:27:12+00:00 modified: 2026-05-25T08:24:40+00:00 author: James Kilby categories: - Hosting - Cloudflare - Personal - Wordpress - Devops - Github - VMware - Homelab tags: - #Cloudflare - #Hosting url: https://jameskilby.co.uk/2022/01/web-development/ image: https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/iu-2.png --- ![Iu 2](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/iu-2.png) [Hosting](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/hosting/) | [Cloudflare](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/cloudflare/) | [Personal](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/personal/) | [Wordpress](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/wordpress/) # Hosting This Blog on Cloudflare Workers: Why & How I Did It By[James](https://jameskilby.co.uk)January 4, 2022 · Updated May 25, 2026 • 📖1 min read(211 words) 📅**Published:** January 04, 2022•**Updated:** May 25, 2026 A while ago I started messing with Cloudflare Workers. I have now moved this site permanently over to them. This is partly related to some issues I have been having with internet access at home. Prior to this, the site ran from within my lab. This means the site is now super fast (hopefully :p). It was cached by Cloudflare previously and now it’s served entirely from within their network. ![Web performance report](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot-2021-12-19-at-19.30.43-2048x751-1-1024x376.png)The speed report looks good To enable this workflow I have retained a WordPress instance running within a docker instance on my Synology. I have also set up Cloudflare teams to access this. This allows me to have the convenience of utilising WordPress as a CMS without having to worry about the security aspect as all public content is static. It also means that I don’t care about the uptime of the particular instance. When I have finished writing the post I use the Simply Static Plugin to Generate the required static files. I then copy these to my wrangler site location on my laptop and ask Wrangler to publish them. wrangler publish --env production 📋 Copy I wrote a post on the initial setup of Cloudflare Workers. 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