How to setup Cloudflare proxy for your website hosted on Vercel or Netlify

In this article, we will learn how to set up Cloudflare Proxy if your websites or apps are hosted on Vercel or Netlify or any of the other similar services.

Most of the steps would be pretty much the same if you are hosting the website on let's say a Digital Ocean droplet or any other VPS but in this one, I want to focus more on when you have your website hosted at some place like Vercel or Netlify or other SaaS-based cloud providers.

Before we start with the process it's important to understand why we want to do this in the first place or rather why these cloud providers would not encourage you to add a Cloudflare proxy in the first place.

Please bear in mind that I am not stating this in any negative way, in fact, I am using Netlify and Vercel for a long time and love their service and ease of deploying apps.

But this is what I have read on many community forums it is not encouraged to add a proxy in between and they do have very solid reasoning behind it. The reason why it is not encouraged is that these individual services already have their edge infrastructure in place to provide caching of static assets and load balancing your serverless functions over the globe, its not possible for them to control the client-to-server request life cycle if there is a proxy sitting in between probably doing the same task of adding another cache layer.

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