I moved my WordPress website to Cloudflare Workers and compared the speed.

This weekend I spend some time learning about the Cloudflare Workers. My friends are talking about the benefits of serverless every day. That is why I wanted to try to do something serverless.

Cloudflare Workers has a low learning curve, and I deployed the “hello world” application within ~30 minutes. Documentation is good, and they have a lot of examples. If you have some basic javascript knowledge, then the rest is some googling.

I started wondering about the workers' speed as it is one of the main selling points of it. I decided to move my single-page personal WordPress blog (page) to the worker and compare the speed.

My WordPress blog is hosted on the smallest available DigitalOcean VPS 1GB RAM, $5/mo server with Nginx, MySQL, and PHP7 (My server and me in Amsterdam). There are no plugins on my WordPress site, and it is working quite fast in 75ms without any caching. I wondered if Cloudflare Worker can load it faster than that as I will serve only static HTML content.

I won’t explain how to install the static website to Cloudflare Workers as there are many tutorials about…