⚠️ UPDATES

15/12/25: Amended typo in the migration section. It should point to the Cloudflare runner deno bin location, not the vercel one.

Also added aside on the $1 VPS.

This blog is now hosted at joefg.pages.dev.

A few reasons why:

1. I wanted to free up my domain name for another site.

2. I wanted to "set and forget", and it looks to have worked well enough for my Git Book.

3. I saw that joefg.pages.dev was available and I wanted to nab it before someone else did.

Migration

Migration was actually rather easy.

• Make sure all links are relative to the hostname. Lume does this for you.

• My ./run build script relied on an install of Deno which wasn't on the runner. The Lume docs cover this. For posterity:

curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh \
    && /opt/buildhome/.deno/bin/deno task build

• Point Cloudflare to the repository and set it to run on pushes to main. This is fine, because I'm the only one who pushes to main, and even then I tend to be the good citizen and make a pull request so I can eyeball the diff.

Alternatives

Deno Deploy is worth trying. I tried it but it wouldn't let me have joefg.deno.net as a blog, or blog.joefg.deno.net.

Vercel is also an option that I've used professionally in the past.

Really though, I just like Cloudflare. The free tier allows for unlimited requests and unlimited bandwidth.

One day I'll snag the mythical $1 VPS and just stick it on there.