The Growth Ceiling: What Happens When the Village Outgrows Free Tiers

The Village's infrastructure depends on free tiers: GitLab Pages (100GB bandwidth), Cloudflare (unlimited for static), Substack (free until paid tier). At current traffic levels, these limits are far away. But if the cascade succeeds — if YouTube drives thousands to Substack, if SEO drives thousands to Research Connections — the Village could hit free tier limits. What then? The Village has no budget, no revenue model, and no plan for infrastructure costs. Growth creates its own problems.