Cloudflare hosting can mean two things: running a site on Cloudflare itself with Pages or Workers, or putting Cloudflare in front of a site that lives on another host. While Cloudflare is primarily a CDN and security provider rather than a traditional web host, they do offer hosting capabilities that are worth understanding.
What Cloudflare Actually Does
Cloudflare sits between your website visitors and your hosting server. When someone visits your site, the request goes through Cloudflare's network first. This provides several benefits:
DDoS protection that blocks malicious traffic before it reaches your server. CDN caching that speeds up page loads by serving content from locations close to the visitor. SSL certificates that encrypt connections automatically. DNS management that is among the fastest in the world.
Cloudflare Pages: Actual Hosting
Cloudflare Pages is their actual hosting product. It hosts static websites and JAMstack applications directly on Cloudflare's edge network. This means your site loads from the nearest Cloudflare data center to each visitor.
It is free for basic use, making it a strong option for personal sites, documentation, and small business websites that do not need server-side processing.
Cloudflare Workers: Serverless Hosting
Cloudflare Workers lets you run serverless code at the edge. This allows dynamic functionality without managing traditional servers. It handles millions of requests and scales automatically.
Workers is useful for APIs, redirects, header manipulation, and lightweight backend logic.
When Cloudflare Is Not Enough
Cloudflare is excellent for websites and static content. But for game server hosting, it is not the right tool. Game servers need hardware with a specific CPU and RAM allocation, which is fundamentally different from web hosting.
For game servers you need a specialized host that names the CPU your server runs on and reserves the RAM you pay for.
Combining Cloudflare with Game Hosting
The best approach is to put Cloudflare in front of your website (server listing, community page, forums) while using a game server host like Space-Node for your actual game server.
Cloudflare Pages does not run PHP, so most forum software and WordPress need a regular web host with a database; Cloudflare can still sit in front of that host. That is what a web hosting package is for: Space-Node's packages start at €2.49 a month with DirectAdmin and a free SSL certificate, and ordering opens around the end of October 2026.
Space-Node handles game server hosting on AMD Ryzen 9 hardware, while Cloudflare handles your community website and provides DDoS protection for your web presence.
This combination gives you the best of both worlds: fast protected websites through Cloudflare and reliable game servers through Space-Node.