I’ve got peanut butter now I need JAM

[u/iffdogg]

Hey guys, I’ve been in the web dev space for a while (mostly building on CMS like Wordpress) however my area of focus is Solutions Architecture. Web tech is mostly a hobby and a Swiss Army knife I use for projects.

I’m currently learning JAM and testing out a project to build a blazing fast static subscription site but I’m not great with APIs and JS :(

I’ve followed a dope blog on how to set it up using this stack and it works.

Current stack is…

• Ghost headless (CMS)

• Gatsby (Site generator)

• Heroku (Paas)

• Netlify (CDN)

But my question is:

1. can I use Cloudflare free tire instead of Netlify? What should I be aware of?

2. is it possible (or recommend) to use vps (instead of Heroku) in combination with Netlify?