Honest hosting

Runs on Cloudflare's free tier. Here's the real math.

No fine print, no surprise bill. Here's exactly what mustr uses, what could ever cost you money, what Cloudflare's terms actually say, and a little estimator for your community. I'd rather over-explain this than have you find out the hard way.

$0/mo to Cloudflare 10 GBfree images Egressalways free Only cost:a domain name
The short version. A mustr instance fits comfortably inside Cloudflare's free allowances, so hosting costs you roughly nothing. I'm not saying that to sound clever, I just didn't want a bill either. The only thing you're guaranteed to pay for is a domain name (from a registrar, not Cloudflare). You'd only ever pay Cloudflare if you choose the flat $5/month plan, and the one number that even slowly creeps up is stored images, with a free ceiling of 10 GB (a lot of screenshots).

Estimate your situation

Roster size: profiles, ranks, roles, medals.
Avatars, medal & rank art, event banners, gallery photos. (Videos are embedded from YouTube, so they cost nothing.)
Advanced assumptions
mustr caps uploads at 1 MB.
A generous estimate.

Estimates, not a quote. Real usage varies. Requests and database reads scale with live traffic and stay far below the free limits for a single community; the numbers above focus on the two things that actually accumulate: stored images (R2) and database size (D1).

The free-tier ceilings

ServiceWhat mustr uses it forFree allowance
WorkersEvery page & API request; scheduled sync jobs100,000 requests/day; static assets free & unlimited
D1 (database)Roster, events, news, training, settings5 GB; 5,000,000 row-reads/day; 100,000 row-writes/day
R2 (media)Uploaded images10 GB storage; egress always free

Verified against Cloudflare's pricing pages on 2026-08-08 (linked below).

What could actually make you pay

None of these are reachable by a normal community. The one unavoidable cost is a domain name from a registrar. Price depends on the extension (a .com is typically ~$10/year; premium ones like .gg cost more). Pointing its DNS at Cloudflare is free.

How mustr uses Cloudflare

mustr is built to use Cloudflare's products the way they're meant to be used, which is also exactly what keeps it on the free tier.

One thing worth knowing: payments

Cloudflare asks that you don't collect credit-card details directly on a site using its Free plan. mustr collects no payment data, so a normal install is fine. If you add paid memberships down the road, use a hosted checkout (Stripe, PayPal) where cards are entered on the processor's own page, the standard approach anyway.

Sources

Cloudflare Workers pricing & free limits ↗ Cloudflare D1 pricing & free limits ↗ Cloudflare R2 pricing (egress free) ↗ Cloudflare Self-Serve Subscription Agreement ↗ Cloudflare blog: "Updated Terms of Service" (May 16, 2023) ↗

These figures reflect Cloudflare's published pricing and terms as of 2026-08-08; Cloudflare can change them, so the linked sources above are the final word. mustr is an independent product and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare.