Enterprise-Grade Security for $0 a Month?
It is real. Cloudflare's free plan carries the shield large companies pay serious money to replicate. The ebook Cloudflare for Website Owners shows you which switches to flip, in what order, step by step.
One $20 Book. No Subscription. Ever.
*explained step by step with dashboard screenshots, free-versus-paid flagged on every feature
Somewhere along the way, website security became a subscription. A monthly bill for the security plugin, another for the CDN, another for the firewall, each one small enough to ignore and none of them ever ending. Meanwhile Cloudflare gives away the core of that stack on its free plan, because its business runs on the giant companies upstairs. The hard part was never the price. It is knowing which switches to flip, and in what order.
The Monthly Stack, or the $0 Stack?
The subscription stack
- ✕Security plugin, billed monthly
- ✕Paid CDN or firewall service, billed monthly
- ✕Costs keep running whether you are attacked or not
- ✕Cancel any of it and the protection goes with it
Cloudflare's free plan, set up right
- ✓Unmetered DDoS protection, WAF, bot filtering, $0 a month
- ✓The same network that shields the giant companies
- ✓Set up once in the dashboard, no code, no plugin
- ✓One $20 book to learn it, then nothing recurring
One payment for the knowledge. Zero payments after that.
What the Free Plan Actually Includes
This is the stack, straight from the dashboard. Every item below is included in Cloudflare's free plan, and the ebook walks you to each one, click by click, with dashboard screenshots.
- Unmetered DDoS ProtectionFREE
- WAF Managed RulesetFREE
- Bot Fight ModeFREE
- Universal SSLFREE
- DNSSECFREE
- Turnstile (Spam Blocker)FREE
You set it up once. Cloudflare absorbs the attacks for $0 a month.
Show me the setup ↓What Do You Get?
- ✓22 chapters in 6 parts: from security foundations, SSL, WAF, and anti-DDoS to caching, load balancing, and incident response
- ✓An honest free-versus-paid flag on every feature, so you always know what costs nothing and what Cloudflare charges for
- ✓A checklist at the end of every chapter, so you can tick through the setup and know nothing was skipped
- ✓Cloudflare dashboard screenshots at the key steps, just follow along top to bottom
- ✓A complete hardening checklist plus a response playbook for when your website is under attack
- ✓A full case study on securing WordPress end to end
Written by People Who Do This for a Living
This ebook is not theory. 8grams is a DevOps & security consultancy, and the same Cloudflare playbook in these pages protects real client websites that get hit by heavy traffic and attacks every single day.
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SaaS · Landing Page Builder
A high-traffic platform where thousands of Indonesian online sellers run their storefronts. Every page it serves is a target: DDoS floods, scraper bots, break-in attempts. Cloudflare sits in front and absorbs the attacks before they ever reach the platform.
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Wellness · Membership Platform
Jakarta's leading Pilates center, with a busy booking and membership platform under constant pressure from bots and automated break-in attempts. Secured behind Cloudflare: SSL, WAF rules, and bot filtering keep registrations and bookings running.
The exact settings we use for clients are the settings in this book.
$50 $20 one-time · launch price
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Free-Plan FAQ
If the free plan is free, why pay $20 for a book about it?
Because the plan is free and the knowledge is scattered. Cloudflare has hundreds of settings across dozens of dashboard pages, and the order you flip them in matters. The book is the map: 22 chapters, 53 real dashboard screenshots, and a checklist at the end of every chapter. One payment, and it replaces the monthly tools you were paying for.
Is there a catch to the free plan?
No card is required and there is no trial clock. The honest catch is scope: the free plan gives you the core layers, while finer controls and a fuller managed WAF sit on paid plans. The book flags free versus paid on every single feature, so you are never surprised.
Can I really cancel my paid security tools afterwards?
Many owners can drop the traffic-facing ones: paid firewalls, login limiters, and CAPTCHA services do work Cloudflare covers at the edge. Tools that work inside your site, such as malware scanners, still earn their keep. The book spells out which is which, so the decision is yours and informed.
What if Cloudflare changes what the free plan includes?
Plan contents can change, which is why the book teaches the reasoning behind every layer rather than a snapshot of menus, and always points you to check Cloudflare’s official pricing page. The setup it builds is standard Cloudflare, so adjustments are small.
I'm not a technical person. Can I follow it?
Yes. The ebook is written for website owners, and every concept and setting is explained from the ground up with dashboard screenshots. If you can log in to your domain or hosting dashboard, you have all the background you need.
What exactly do I get for $20?
The complete PDF ebook, 22 chapters in 6 parts, on securing, speeding up, and keeping your website reliable with Cloudflare, in your inbox the moment you pay. One-time payment, no subscription.
Disclaimer
We do not promise a website that is immune to every attack. This ebook is a configuration guide, and results depend on how you apply it to your own website. Cloudflare's free plan covers most of the material; some advanced features are paid directly to Cloudflare, and their pricing, plan contents, and terms can change at any time (check Cloudflare's official website). Cloudflare is a trademark of Cloudflare, Inc.; this ebook and page are produced by 8grams and are not affiliated with Cloudflare, Inc.