[ArtDev]

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.