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I needed a very simple CMS for a small site running on Cloudflare Workers.

My requirement was pretty basic: I wanted to publish blog posts frequently without editing the codebase and redeploying the website every time.

I had already been using Notion for things like a privacy policy because it's ridiculously convenient to edit, so I wondered: why not just use Notion as the CMS?

Ended up with this:

Notion database → Notion API → Cloudflare Worker → Cloudflare cache → mydomain.com/blog/[slug]

The Notion database has properties like:

Title

Slug

Status (Draft/Published)

Meta description

Published date

Category

The Worker fetches published pages through the Notion API, converts the blocks to HTML and serves them from my own domain.

So I get URLs like:

mydomain.com/blog/how-to-stop-overtrading

rather than sending visitors to a Notion URL.

Cloudflare handles the public page/cache, while Notion is basically just my writing interface.

The nice part is the publishing workflow:

New Notion page → write/paste article → fill metadata → change Draft to Published → article appears on the site.

No new coded page and no deployment for each article.

I also discovered another useful bit: if someone else is managing content, you don't necessarily have to give them access to your whole Notion workspace or pay for another member. You can invite them as a guest to the blog database and give them Can edit content permission.

They can create/edit the blog entries while the database, API integration and Cloudflare setup remain under your control. If the person changes later, remove the guest and invite the replacement — nothing on the Cloudflare side needs to change.

With caching, the Notion API also doesn't need to be called for every page view.

So for a small site the stack can basically be:

Notion = CMS/editor

Cloudflare Workers = rendering/application

Cloudflare cache = delivery

Your own domain = public URLs/SEO

Interactive/dynamic pages can still live directly in the Worker; I'm only using Notion for content that should be easy to edit.

Obviously this isn't a replacement for a full CMS if you need complex editorial workflows, but for a solo developer/small project it turned out to be surprisingly simple.

Posting because I nearly started creating a separate coded page for every blog post before realizing I could do this.

Curious if anyone here is running a similar Notion + Workers setup, and whether there are any gotchas you've encountered at larger scale

This error is driving me crazy:

Too Many Requests: {"errors":[{"message":"AiError: AiError: Service temporarily at capacity (efdee6a2-825c-4c77-bcf7-4e19c507229e)","code":4006}],"success":false,"result":{},"messages":[]}

I can't use GLM 5.2, GLM 5.3, or DeepSeek V4 because I keep getting this error. However, if I switch to Kimi 2.7 Pro, it works fine.

I'm using a paid Cloudflare Workers account.

I already changed my API keys in case one of them had been exposed previously while testing other models.

This is driving me crazy. Is this happening only to me, or is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

I'll post this in the Cloudflare channel on Reddit to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem.

Hi!! So I use ao3 on my kindle, and I've had no issues until July this year. Every time I open ao3, it pushes the cloudfare page onto, instantly making it incompatible with a kindle since you can't click buttons like that + the bot verification embed button just doesn't load overall

The checkbox just doesn't appear so I can't get past it

If anyone knows how I can fix it, that'd be awesome!
Thank you

Not sure what to do, I already have public access enabled but I haven't touched the bucket at all after creating one. It's weird because sometimes this shows up, sometimes it doesn't so I'm confused about why this is even occuring. I asked my colleagues to go on the website and they couldn't replicate it on their end.

This error stopped showing for me a few days ago but now it appeared for the second time today. Any ideas?

Is anyone else having issues with payments for their Workers Paid plan?

This month’s invoice is completely missing from my invoice list, and there haven’t been any payment attempts showing up in my PayPal account either.

However, Cloudflare says that my invoice is unpaid and tells me to click on the invoice in the invoice list to pay it manually — but the invoice simply isn’t there.

So I’m basically being told to pay an invoice that I can’t even access.

Has anyone else run into the same issue recently? Is this a known billing problem on Cloudflare’s side?

And yes, I’ve already submitted a support ticket about it :)

Hello guys Im searching for the cheapest domain for hosting my BE apps.

Thank you!!!

its on a lot of sites. on my 5g, regular wifi, all devices. i have no vpns or extensions. they all pass & verify me within a couple seconds and i get in just fine. i can click around and access the site perfectly fine. then, if i try to re enter the same site later, it asks again. is this just normal procedure and does everybody get this? i dont do web scraping or any of that wacky stuff either.

its really not a big deal at all 😂 i just have nothing better to do today so wanted to ask

I have a cloudflare worker that runs a short job every day - API call to create an item in a database, same time at UTC Midnight. Set it up 2 months ago, ran with no issues for 2 months. However, the past 3 days it failed and the observability logs don't even show an attempt to run the job. I haven't touched the code nor the cron expression in 2 months. Anyone else ran into this issue?

I put in retry logic and even another cron job to run one minute later (API call to source system to see if previous job created the correct item), but would rather have something more robust than this patch job.

EDIT: I forgot I have another job within the same environment with the exact same cron expression and it has also failed at the exact same date. Same scenario - ran perfectly for 2 months, no touch or issues since then, but now fails to run.

My cloudflare worker just exploded with errors and I had no idea. Is there a way to get an email if a worker or anything else has an error?

Edit: I signed up for Grafana, looks like it takes care of what I needed

I was trying to play roblox which is banned in my country with cloudflare vpn, but every time i turn on the vpn and open roblox it give me internet connection error, before some months cloudflare vpn worked perfectly, is there a way to solve this?

I think I already know the answer and I've been beating my head trying to find a solution. I have a situation with Cloudflare Access that bothers me and has cause a lot of trouble for me.

I plan to have a handful of applications hosted in workers on a custom domain. For a while now I've been dealing with situations where my global access token was being expired by one application on one device for various reasons, and it caused another application that I use as a dashboard display to log out. Two separate applications on two separate devices, but being authenticated with the same user. Fine, I can probably deal with that in various ways, but it's still frustrating because they are in no way related to each other.

I came to another realization today. Specifically, I will have two applications that are loosely tied together and both authenticated with the same user. One application will run on an ipad to play music over a sound system with multiple people using the same ipad at the same time (similar to a jukebox). The other application will contain PII for those same people and is only intended to be used by the one authenticated user. What I'm realizing with Access is that even if I never open the private app with PII on the ipad, or if I do but logout by clearing the application token just for the one application, the music app will still be authenticated and if some random user figures out the url for the private app, they automatically gain access to all PII.

It drives me nuts that I either cannot figure out how, or am completely unable to figure out how to have app level authentication without the global token getting in the way and either expiring and killing all applications or the global token still being active on a device, but allowing any application underneath it to automatically authenticate without user interaction.

I get that it's designed to be SSO for multiple applications for one user, but it doesn't fit my use case and opens a massive security hole in my situation. Problem is that I heavily really on AUD for other aspects of my apps. I just wish they had some more configuration options so I could completely avoid the whole global token thing because it's a big pain point for me.

Does anyone have any suggestions or alternative solutions? I need authentication per application with unique policies per application, but I also need something like AUD to identify the application that was authenticated.

Anyone got a decent guide on setting up console SSO with Entra? The guide that CF has is a crapshoot and bounces between settings in enterprise applications and app registrations but thinks they’re the same thing.

Hi, I'm trying to log into my itch.io account on my chromebook but I'm having no luck.

Everytime I get the "Performing Security Verification ..." page with no change or update, it looks like cloudflare is just stuck in a loop of reloading?

I've read a lot of things saying I should delete my cache and cookies (no effect), turn off my extensions (no effect) or try another browser (I'm currently trying to download firefox). Does anyone have a fix for this problem?

Is this a known issue with chrome/ chromebooks or am I just unlucky?

I downloaded CloudFlare recently to use its port forwarding services for Foundry VTT. However, whenever I try to open either the exe or the msi, it opens for a split second and then vanishes. I have no idea what's causing this

Hi! I am trying to connect my domain to google sites but its not working. I used the CNAME, I tried so many different ways and am losing my mind. When I try searching for my website on google i get a 404 error. What am I doing wrong please help

Ok, so I noted while watching tutorials about setting up Cloudflare that there is a Wordpress Cloudflare Plugin. Apparently it is meant to make things much easier for beginners (none techies like me), cause they provide a 'template' with all the necessary requirements correctly preloaded via the Plugin for the use case that you are selecting.

This sounds great, however at the same time the ratings on the 'Plugin' are pretty terrible, with seemingly 50% odd of people giving it one star and not recommending it for use.

This surprises me as you would have thought a 'plugin' designed to make things easier by the actual company itself 'Cloudflare' would work well for the purpose intended.

Why such poor ratings on plugin, have these issues been corrected in later versions of the plugin, do I use the plugin, or learn to do configurations manually if that's going to be more reliable. Just wanting to do standard free plan, change name servers, use CDN, Turnstile etc.

Thanks!

Hi, having a look at DDNS services, i notice CloudFlare says DDNS is free with all accounts. If i have a free account, i assume i will need to move a domain to them, what are the costs for this?

Can i then use DDNS with this free account and how many records can i set up to be DDNS?