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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.

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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.

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?

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