Apache is free. Cloudflare is Est. $20/mo.
$240/year for Cloudflare.
The open-source HTTP server that still serves a lot of shared hosting and VPS sites.
Try itAvailable on almost every VPS and shared host
The config is plain text you can search
No account with a cloud vendor required
You patch and configure the server yourself
A default install is easy to leave too open
DNS, a CDN, Workers, and object storage in front of the rest of the stack.
Try itThe free DNS and CDN tier covers a lot of small sites
Workers can handle a request without your origin server
One dashboard for the domain and the cache
Workers are not a full replacement for a normal backend
Caching rules can hide a bug until you bypass them