Static vs Cloudflare Tunnels?

I just tried generating some static pages with this WordPress installation and deploying them to Cloudflare Pages. While it seemed successful (at least from the publishing point of view), it made it difficult to work with some of the plugins that make things convenient.

The Google Site Kit plugin, especially. For some reason, it refuses to use a custom domain and insists on using the current site’s URL as the domain for connecting with Google Analytics. So that means I can’t really host things locally and then generate static pages from the local site without some janky setup, like having the hosts file point this domain locally.

In any case, I think this tunnel plus Cloudflare optimizations should be good enough. I don’t think it would always be online, though, and my tinkering with the server every now and then would mean this blog would go down along with it.

Then again, I did note before that this is firstly an experiment and secondly really just a staging area for my thoughts that I want to immediately note down. The ones I’d really want to prepare would then get published on the hackworkplay.com or life.beyondrails.com blogs instead.