Comment by gmihelac
1 year ago
This is going to be a dumb question. I am new to coding ( 3 months in ). I am building a simple static personal website with GitHub pages. I am worried since I had to input billing data to GitHub for my global campus application since I am a student.
Is this something I need to worry about? Does cloudflare provide a service that is cheap that can prevent something like this for my GitHub pages site?
Getting DDoSed is rare but highly destructive when it does happen if you happen to use something like Netlify. GitHub Pages is under fair use and only for personal projects (no commercial uses). For commercial use, something like Cloudflare Pages would be better. Cloudflare can also help with their whole suite of tools with mitigating attacks and they will call you if you do exceed the free tier according to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520894.