Hey there! I’ve been down this rabbit hole before. Cloudflare’s Page Rules won’t cut it for this—you need Load Balancing for automatic IP failover. It’s available on Pro plans and higher, so yeah, you’d need to upgrade.
If you’re sticking with the free plan, you could use a third-party monitoring tool like UptimeRobot to alert you when your IP goes down, and then manually update your DNS in Cloudflare. Not as smooth, but it’s a workaround.
If you’re sticking with the free plan, you could use a third-party monitoring tool like UptimeRobot to alert you when your IP goes down, and then manually update your DNS in Cloudflare. Not as smooth, but it’s a workaround.