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Developer Cuts Hosting Costs 95% by Moving 11 Sites to Cloudflare Pages
A developer migrated 11 static sites from Hostinger ($39/month) to Cloudflare Pages (free), reducing hosting costs by over 95%. Each site took 20-30 minutes to move, with email handled separately via EmailSpaces at $0.98 per domain. The author now defaults to static hosting for new projects, questioning whether dynamic servers are ever needed.
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The story is a practical cost-saving guide for developers, but the real insight is how inertia keeps many paying for unnecessary server resources—a reminder to audit your own tech stack.
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From $39/Month to $1: How I Moved 10+ Sites Off Hostinger for Free →
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