Deploying on CloudFlare Pages or Vercel

[AlessioGr]

Hey,
is it possible to deploy Payload CMS to either CloudFlare Pages or Vercel? If yes, could someone give me a very brief step by step guide?

Thank you,
Alessio

[jmikrut]

Hey @AlessioGr — we've actually been working with another community member about deploying to Vercel in the following Discussion:

#519 (comment)

TL;DR: Vercel is a serverless platform and Payload runs on Express. You can deploy Express apps to Vercel, but they don't recommend it. Check out that link for more info.

Regarding Cloudflare Pages, I believe that platform is meant to serve static sites, and Payload comes with APIs. So I'm not sure that you'd be able to deploy Payload to Cloudflare Pages.

[AlessioGr]

I see, thank you a lot for the explanation! As for Cloudflare, you can probably use "Workers", but I guess that has the similar limitations as Vercel serverless functions

[balupton]

So Cloudflare Pages is just some tooling around Cloudflare Workers and KV to make edge static and dynamic sites possible, it is Cloudflare's competitor to Vercel. So Remix and Astro sites deployed to Cloudflare Pages support static assets, ssr, edge functions, and client components; plus the benefits of cloudflare; worlds largest cdn and ddos protection, kv, d1, r2, queue, etc. That said, the Cloudflare suggestion is best suited by #1525

[balupton]

For facilitation of the various serverless platforms, swapping out express for https://github.com/honojs/hono might be a good move

[GerardPolloRebozado]

Now that cloudflare has made a package to support nextjs SSR is it posible to host payload cms?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/nextjs/ssr/get-started/#existing-apps