How I Replaced WordPress, Shopify, and Mailchimp with Cloudflare Workers The $300/month problem As a freelancer, I was paying: WordPress hosting: €20/month Security plugin: €15/month Shopify: €79/month + 2% transaction fees Mailchimp: €50/month Calendly: €12/month Total: ~€176/month + transaction cuts Plus the hidden costs: updates, backups, security patches, plugin conflicts, slow loading times... The revelation What if a CMS didn't need: ❌ A database ❌ An origin server ❌ Plugins ❌ Security patches What if everything ran on the edge — closer to users than a traditional server could ever be? Meet AI on Edge A flat-file CMS built entirely on Cloudflare: Architecture (no, really — zero servers) 7 microservices on Cloudflare Workers Flat files on Cloudflare R2 (S3-compatible object storage) KV for caching and configuration Durable Objects for real-time features Zero databases. Zero origin servers.…