Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO.

I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it’s not costly, but I’m still in that cheap-feeling phase and not ready to offload over 100GB of files to the public while paying a price.

I looked at Bunny CDN a while back, but I remember thinking that the minimum was like ~$50. What did I miss? I dismissed it as non-personal option.

Trifold looks simple! Also seems like a good reason to finally try out bunny.net

For anyone who might find this interesting, I wanted a static site knowledge base but private: https://chanux.me/blog/post/static-site-with-auth/

I host this with GCP and stay within free tier

And how I deploy a similar thing with GCS/Cloud build etc is covered here https://chanux.me/blog/post/automate-static-site-publishing-...

> trifold offers an easy alternative to services like Cloudflare Pages, Netlify [...]

Does it? Those provide dynamic compute for e.g. SSR, not hosting static sites. The equivalent here is more like S3 + Cloudflare (Cloud Connector and some rules). Which is free for most use cases and (IMO) pretty easy.

This is pretty neat, but setups like this always make me wonder how the “static web” has become so complex?

I feel that tossing your static files up on a host like NearlyFreeSpeech (or any other cheap/decent host) is the easiest.

This would also only cost you ~$0.03 a day. Don’t reinvent the wheel, you know?