I moved one of my projects off HostGator and onto Cloudflare this morning.
Spoiler alert, it’s this one:
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| $$$$$$ hansonhotline.com $$$$$$ |
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Mostly after spending way too much time with support trying to resolve an SSL error. After a few conversations that went nowhere, it felt like the right moment to, as usual, take matters into my own busy hands (on about three hours of sleep, naturally).
A few quick stats:
- Build time: ~10 seconds
- Total migration time: ~1.5 hours
Infrastructure steps:
- Attach custom domain
- Push React project to GitHub
- Connect repo to Cloudflare Pages
- Build & deploy (automatic)
- Move DNS to Cloudflare
Where we’re at: Vite + TypeScript + Cloudflare + GitHub
The site is now a simple React build (Vite + TypeScript) deployed through Cloudflare Pages, with GitHub triggering the builds. DNS, SSL, and the CDN are handled by Cloudflare, so there’s no server to manage and deployments are just a git push.
It was also a good reminder that sometimes we already know how to do a lot more than we think — it just takes being forced to deploy something for all those pieces to finally click together.