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Cloudflare Pages in production: the Swiss checklist

Published March 1, 2026 · 5 min read

A deployment is only real when the production domain serves the expected build. Preview success is necessary, not sufficient.

1. Confirm project-domain mapping

• Pages project exists and has the right branch strategy
• Custom domain (for example, `blog.mixel.ch`) is attached
• DNS records resolve to the Pages target

2. Validate post-deploy behavior

• HTTP 200 on live domain and critical routes
• Expected HTML signature appears on production URL
• No stale cache serving previous markup

3. Keep a rollback path ready

Fast rollback is part of reliability. Keep previous deployment IDs and a known-good release path documented before high-risk changes.

4. Treat operations as part of product quality

Teams often focus on UI and forget domain-level verification. For production quality, infrastructure checks must be treated as first-class acceptance criteria.