[api]

A lot of people just stick cloudflare in front of anything because of cargo cultism.

A $5/mo VPS can serve a blog to tens of thousands of people unless you are running something stupidly inefficient. If it’s a static blog make that hundreds of thousands. For millions you might need to splurge on the $10 or $20 per month VPS.

[hewlett]

You can either spend $5 per month for VPS for a webserver for your static blog which you now have to secure properly, or you can just stick it on Cloudflare Pages for free

[esquire_900]

Cloudflare bot protection adds a slight delay (as in seconds) at best, and completely blocks users like the parent comment at worst. It costs no money, but isn't free either.

[doodlesdev]

We are talking about different products though, I believe you can have your webpage hosted on Cloudflare Pages or behind Cloudflare CDN without enabling invasive "bot" detection.

[actualwitch]

You don't need to host in on cloudflare, just use github pages - it's cdn is plenty fast.

[Spivak]

Or you use the free thing and never think about it?