I really dont like this centralization of the internet into a few gigantic companies having every site under their wings. And then something goes wrong and millions of web sites are affected.
It also gives these companies the power to shut down any of their user sites.
On the other hand, handling a ddos attack is hardly possible without them these days.
DDoS is a problem that happens once in a blue moon. Most people don’t need DDoS protection.
I used to think this way until all this AI garbage happened. My tiny tech blog suddenly got 100x the traffic after the AI boom, all from bots and scrapers. I started with basic solutions but after a few weeks, gave up and used cloudflare because it’s free and I’m sick of playing wackamole.
It’s a mess out there.