For a writing-focused site, deployment should be boring. Cloudflare Pages with Eleventy gives predictable builds and automatic preview URLs without adding frontend framework overhead.

Keep the build contract simple

Use one build command and one output directory. That keeps local and hosted environments aligned.

Validate content before render

Treat frontmatter validation as a release gate so missing metadata and slug conflicts fail early.

Make previews part of your writing flow

Preview deployments are useful for copy review and link checks before publishing.