On: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

[anaganisk]

My site never failed thats the thing without paying $20. And many developers can actually do it too. If you can’t serve decent traffic for a static site, I would rather fix the leaking tap once and for all than wasting money on a water tanker every time I am out of water.

[innocenat → anaganisk]

And I am not saying you have to pay $20 every time. It's there to handle the traffic while you identify and fix the problem.

It's your choice if you don't want redundancy in place if any incidents happened.

[collinmanderson → innocenat]

What does the $20 buy vs free plan? During a spike I was able to handle 30k pageviews per hour with Cloudflare free plan + $40 vps. Pretty much all pageviews were cached by Cloudflare and didn't hit my server. How does the $20 plan help?