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The site you are reading: one Cloudflare Worker at the edge, with its full architecture and monthly running cost published on the colophon.

~$6 monthly run cost
1 Cloudflare Worker, edge-deployed

This site is the portfolio piece I couldn't buy: I wanted to demonstrate the architecture I sell by running it.

It had to be measurably fast worldwide, cost almost nothing to run, and stay honest — no fabricated numbers anywhere.

I built it on Astro with React islands and deployed it as a single Cloudflare Worker: nearly every page prerendered, with the AI copilot, contact flow, and live telemetry running through edge bindings.

It runs as a single Worker at the edge, and the parts that could be asserted are instead published: the full architecture, the monthly cost breakdown, and the Lighthouse scores with the date and commit they were measured at, all on the colophon.

Tradeoffs
  • Prerendering nearly everything means dynamic features live in islands — more discipline, much faster pages.
  • Workers AI within the plan allowance over premium model APIs: bounded cost, constrained model choice.
  • Where a number can't be measured, the site says so instead of inventing one.
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