If you want to introduce a paywall to your Astro blog - like I do - then Cloudflare Pages, Clerk, and Stripe offer a pretty sweet setup. In this post I'll show you how you gate some of your content with subscriptions or one-time payments. We'll use Astro for our content, Cloudflare Pages for hosting, Clerk for authentication and Stripe for collecting payments. Get started with Cloudflare Pages and Clerk Deploy Astro to Cloudflare Pages . Cloudflare Pages supports SSR for Astro, which means we can evaluate requests on the server side. Deploy directly from GitHub for continuous integration. Create a free Clerk account . Clerk will handle creating and authenticating your users. Their free tier is extremely generous. Use Cloudflare's middleware logic to evaluate requests based on URL, e.g.: /blog/exclusive-posts/* In your middleware.ts , use Clerk to validate user authentication. Redirect to a paywall when the user is not logged in.…