Layer 01 · Foundation
Hosting — where the launch lives
The foundation layer decides how a launch ships: deploys, previews,
DNS, TLS. Both picks in this layer are stamped from this estate's own operation —
one as the platform the portfolio runs on, one as the platform it ran on and is leaving.
Primary pick
Cloudflare — Pages & Workers
Hosts the sites and runs their edge logic: static pages on Pages, functions and form capture on Workers, DNS and TLS in the same account.
Run by this estate
cloudflare.com
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Every public property this estate operates — more than two dozen sites,
including this directory itself — is served from Cloudflare's edge, as Pages projects and
Workers. We deploy through its API, hold our DNS there, and run form capture in Workers
and KV. This verdict is written from daily operation across the whole portfolio,
not from a trial.
- Free tier
- Pages static hosting is free, with unlimited static requests and 500 builds a month. Workers free allows 100,000 requests a day.
- The wall
- Dynamic compute: the day your functions outgrow 100,000 requests a day — or need more than 10 ms of CPU a request — Workers Paid is the first step up.
- Price
- $0 to start. Workers Paid $5/mo when the wall arrives. As checked November 9, 2026
Alternate — and why it is the alternate
Vercel
The polished git-push hosting platform: connect a repo, every push is a deploy, every branch a preview.
Run by this estate
vercel.com
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This estate ran real production properties on Vercel — and is leaving it:
the exit was executed across the portfolio in November 2026, with a handful of projects held
only because some environment values cannot be exported. The deploy experience remains the
most polished in its class; if your product is a Next.js app you will feel why people stay.
It sits as the alternate, not the primary, because per-seat pricing compounds as a team
grows, while this estate's workloads fit Cloudflare's flat model. A verdict can hold both
facts at once; this one does.
- Free tier
- A free Hobby plan exists — for personal, non-commercial use only. Its terms do not allow a business launch on it at all.
- The wall
- A licence line, not a quota: commercial use requires Pro from the first day.
- Price
- Pro $20 per developer seat/mo. As checked November 9, 2026