Bankruptcy as a surprise gift is not an alternative. Even those that use big cloud providers like AWS and GCP use CDNs like Cloudflare to protect themselves. And there is no free CDN like Cloudflare.
Their pricing page says:
No-nonsense Free Tier
As part of the AWS free Usage Tier you can get started with Amazon CloudFront for free.
Included in Always Free Tier
1 TB of data transfer out to the internet per month 10,000,000 HTTP or HTTPS Requests per month 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations per month 2,000,000 CloudFront KeyValueStore reads per month 10 Distribution Tenants Free SSL certificates No limitations, all features available
I don't care about any of those fancy serverless services. I am just talking about the cheapest CDN.
> 1 TB of data
Someone can rent a 1Gbps server for cheap (under $50 on OVH) and pull 330TB in a month from your site. That's about $30k of egress on AWS if you don't do anything to stop it.