I have nothing against Cloudflare, but brother, he doesn’t help with the speed of the site on a free plan, all the speed and protection that Cloudflare gives starts with a plan for $ 200. What Cloudflare gives on a free plan is to easily tune into vds, and the effect is better than Cloudflare's, I have repeatedly tested the configured Cloudflare and the usual setting, setting up vds (your web server) using nginx gives a better result. Another minus cloud ferry on a free tariff is that it passes traffic, as it sees fit, and not as faster, for example, you live in paris, Cloudflare has a data center in paris, but it can pass traffic through half the world to make a whole circle and to give you an answer from Russia, let's say, although he can give it back from Paris, it will cut off time. I think this is also a minus, but for $ 200 the tariff chooses the point of traffic transmission by the shortest path. So if you care about your site speed, it's better to delve into and study self-tuning, I'm new to this myself, but it's cool when you set up a web server yourself, without old servers.
