<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>SignalFlare blog</title><link>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/</link><description>Hard billing caps for Cloudflare. Paid Cloudflare plans have no spending limit. SignalFlare watches your usage and, when a budget hits its cap, cuts the traffic behind it: Worker routes, WAF rules, crons.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Alert Noise: How to Design Billing Alerts Nobody Mutes</title><link>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/billing-alert-noise/</link><guid>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/billing-alert-noise/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A billing alert that fires every week gets archived, and then the one that matters gets archived too. Thresholds that mean something, forecast versus threshold, dedupe, per-service budgets, routing by severity, and a checklist for what to do when one fires.</description></item><item><title>Finally. Hard Billing Caps for Cloudflare.</title><link>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/hard-billing-caps-for-cloudflare/</link><guid>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/hard-billing-caps-for-cloudflare/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Paid Cloudflare plans still have no spending limit, and the official alert arrives a day late. Today SignalFlare caps go live: when a budget hits 100%, we cut the traffic behind the spend. Here&apos;s how it works, and exactly where it stops.</description></item><item><title>When Billing Alerts Aren&apos;t Enough</title><link>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/when-billing-alerts-arent-enough/</link><guid>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/when-billing-alerts-arent-enough/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An alert is only as good as the person who reads it, and at 3am nobody does. Here&apos;s the escalation ladder from notify to cap, plus a step-by-step guide to turning on Cloudflare&apos;s own budget alerts and getting those emails into Slack or PagerDuty.</description></item><item><title>Cloudflare Still Has No Spending Limit. That&apos;s a $4,868 Problem.</title><link>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/cloudflare-spending-limit/</link><guid>https://www.signalflare.dev/blog/cloudflare-spending-limit/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A $5/month Cloudflare account ran up a $4,868 bill over one weekend when two buggy Workers wrote 4.8 billion rows to D1. People have asked for a hard spending cap since 2020, and there still isn&apos;t one. Here&apos;s why that gap exists, and the honest version of what an alert can and can&apos;t do about it.</description></item></channel></rss>