Startups face a unique set of constraints: limited capital, small teams, and the need to iterate fast. Serverless architecture addresses all three.
Pay-per-use means zero waste
With traditional servers, you're paying for capacity whether you use it or not. A serverless stack on Cloudflare Workers means you pay only when your code runs. For an early-stage startup with unpredictable traffic, this can reduce infrastructure costs by 60–80%.
Ship features, not infrastructure
Your engineers should be building product, not configuring load balancers. Serverless abstracts away the operational overhead — no patching, no capacity planning, no 3 AM pager alerts for a crashed instance.
Scale without thinking about it
When your Product Hunt launch drives 10x traffic overnight, Workers scales automatically. When things calm down, it scales back to zero. You never have to pre-provision or worry about whether your server can handle the load.
The trade-offs are real (but manageable)
Cold starts, vendor lock-in, and debugging complexity are valid concerns. But with modern tooling — warm-up strategies, Infrastructure as Code, and distributed tracing — these trade-offs are increasingly manageable.
Getting started
If you're building a new product today, start serverless by default. Use Cloudflare Workers for your backend, D1 for data, and R2 + Cloudflare CDN for your frontend. You can always add servers later if a specific workload demands it — but you probably won't need to.
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