An honest assessment.
WHEN IT HELPS
Visitors far from the server, who get cached content from somewhere nearer Attack traffic, filtered before it reaches your account and consumes your resources Bot traffic, which consumes resources on many small sites Sites needing DNS changes frequently, since Cloudflare's propagation is fast Traffic spikes, absorbed at the edge
WHEN IT ADDS LITTLE
A small site with local visitors and modest traffic A site already fast, cached and untroubled by bots
WHAT IT COSTS YOU
Another system between you and your site, which becomes another thing to check when something breaks A configuration that can conflict with ours, particularly around SSL Mail problems, if records are proxied by mistake
THE HONEST POSITION
For a Nigerian business serving Nigerian customers, the caching benefit is smaller than for an international audience, and the bot filtering benefit is real.
The DNS hosting alone is worth having.
MY RECOMMENDATION
Use it for DNS and for filtering. Configure it correctly, particularly the SSL mode, and understand what is proxied.
