As someone who maintains/hosts a lot of small business sites, allow me to inform this thread that the author of this post is as wrong as any person can be wrong.

If you're not behind Cloudflare, the level of effort required to impact your operations goes down, not up. Yes, of course, you're not impacted by massive outages like this, but you will be affected by other outages, and you will have a harder time recovering.

Do not listen to this author.