Is Cloudflare’s free CDN and DDoS protection actually enough for small projects and personal blogs? Do you run into performance drops when traffic spikes or when serving dynamic content? What kind of headaches does the free tier bring—like API call limits, SSL certificate management, or other gotchas? In what scenarios would you actually pick the free plan, and what extra precautions do you take before switching? Before jumping to a paid tier, what kind of benchmarks or tests do you run in a staging environment? Would love to hear your thoughts and real-world experiences.
Discussion on the limitations of Cloudflare's free plan and real-world usage scenarios
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To be honest, the Free Plan is enough for simple blogs and static assets, but if the site has dynamic API requests or unpredictable traffic, you'll hit the 100,000 requests/month and 6 images/second WAF limits 😅. That's why I add a small free Cloudflare Workers quota and measure latency and error rates before upgrading to Pro. 🙃