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Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
This site is hosted with Cloudflare Pages and I'm really happy with it. When I explored how to create a site like mine in 2025, I wondered why there's an abundance of good, free hosting these days. Years ago, you'd have to pay for hosting,…
But Cloudflare's Free tier reigns supremeThere are various types of usage limits across the platforms, but the biggest one to worry about is bandwidth. ServiceFree Bandwidth Limit/MoNotes Cloudflare Pages Unlimited Just don't host NetflixGitHub Pages Soft 100 GBs"Soft" = probably fine if you go viral on reddit sometimesX,000 requests/minLots of nuances, somewhat confusing Netlify 100GBPay for more AWS S3 100 GBCredit card required, just in case... but apparently Amazon is very forgiving of accidental overagesThe platforms generally say your site shouldn't be more than ~1GB in size and less than some tens of thousands of files. Strategically, Cloudflare offering unlimited bandwidth for small static sites like mine fits in with its other benevolent services like 1.1.1.1(that domain lol) and free DDOS protection.
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