[tom_walters]

"I used a free service and it wasn't great"

Then use another service or pay for it.

This is highly unlikely to be as simple as the author conjects, we're talking about a service that processes an enormous amount of traffic and if what the author suggests is true, would someone else not have noticed by now? It's certainly possible that different infrastructure is used by free/paid plans, and perhaps this specific site was hosted on an unhealthy instance. But we don't have any external data points here to analyse - only those reported by Cloudflare, along with anecdotal reports.

Edit: I see the title has now been changed, at least we're reducing clickbait.