That is terrible advice. Cloudflare is normally an awesome CDN that is effectively free. It reduces resource usage by a large amount due to caching. Also, if m

That is terrible advice. Cloudflare is normally an awesome CDN that is effectively free. It reduces resource usage by a large amount due to caching. Also, if my little blog gets posted on Reddit or somewhere and gets a huge spike.. it won't go down or cost me money in overages. This actually happened two years ago. I had massive DDOS style traffic that Cloudflare totally was able to mitigate.