Deployment
How Cloudflare Pages Serves Static Assets through a Global CDN
May 10, 20264 min readRipplica Labs
Learn what Cloudflare Pages actually hosts after your Next.js project is built.
Hosting static output
Cloudflare Pages is excellent at distributing built files. Once your project has been compiled into static assets, Cloudflare can cache and deliver them from locations close to your users.
For a pure SSG blog, this often means the runtime model is simpler: users request pages, and the CDN returns the generated assets with very little work happening at request time.
Why this feels fast
The closer the file is to the visitor, the lower the network distance. CDN caching improves perceived speed because many requests are answered from edge locations instead of a single origin server.
That is why static generation and CDN delivery pair so well together.