Cloudflare for AI Devs: More Than a CDN, It's Your Security Backbone
Oracle Cloud is the muscles of my operation. Cloudflare is the nervous system. Most people know Cloudflare as the company that speeds up websites or hides your origin IP. That's a small fraction of what it does. For an AI-native solo builder, Cloudflare quietly handles the work that would otherwise require its own dedicated team: SSL certificates, DNS routing, edge caching, deployment, security filtering. All of it, free tier, set-it-and-forget-it. If you're running anything publicly accessible without Cloudflare in front of it, you're either paying for redundant tools or leaving security holes you don't know about. What This Post Covers The actual Cloudflare features I use across every PrintMoneyLab project, the SSL configuration that took me an hour of confusion to get right, why Cloudflare Pages replaced everything I used to deploy frontends with, and the security layer that catches threats I'd never know existed otherwise. SSL Without the Certificate...