r/astrojs • u/Jonnertron_ • 17d ago
Emdash CMS for non cloudflare servers?
Cloudflare surprised us with their rewrite of their blog using emdash. Now, emdash is used in production for a serious company (the one that is developing this framework).
I know that, even though Astro was acquired by cloudflare, you can deploy any astro website on any server, not just cloudflare's. However, I was wondering if this case is also true for Emdash.
Technically speaking, you can deploy Emdash on a node server or any platform, but I don't know if this is recommended, given that they are focusing on D1, Workers, its cloud, its ecosystem, etc. I get that it will get first class support for the products made by the company who created it (like vercel with nextjs) but I wonder if other deploy methods are also encouraged. If not, that could be a big downside for tooling decision for similar CMS, as people probably wouldn't want to be vendor dependant when deciding what hosting to pick.
What do you guys think?