Cloudflare
Cloudflare is the most user-friendly, simple hyperscaler with true scale-to-zero. They have every cloud component needed to build 99.9% of apps, and everything scales to zero so you only pay for what you use.
Key Services
- Workers - This is where your TanStack Start code is deployed and run. Pay per millisecond of compute, scales to zero.
- D1 - A SQLite database (SQLite API, but not exactly SQLite). Generous free tier, pay per query.
- KV - Key-value storage for simple data like sessions and cache.
- R2 - S3-compatible object storage for file uploads.
- Service Bindings - Lets you bind other workers, Cloudflare resources, or secrets to your worker.
Read the Cloudflare Developer Platform Docs to understand how each of these works.