> I'd rather advocate for a solution that doesn't induce centralization. Because that still does. It's a weird suggestion to pay twice. I'm assuming in your hypothetical, cloudflare not only doesn't ever go down, but also absorbs only malicious traffic, and not any organic? Why should cloudflare do that and not my primary host? I'll assume I have XX to spend on hosting, you don't see how if I have to also allocate some of that to cloudflare, in addition to the real host
You don't have to pay cloudflare anything at all for them to act as CDN and provide basic DDoS protections.
> You don't have to pay cloudflare anything at all for them to act as CDN and provide basic DDoS protections.
I object to centralization and consolidation of power, how is this not both?
I'll duplicate my follow up question, from a sister thread.
If I actually start using the DDoS protection or other services... will cloudflare cut me off unless I pay? Will that charge be exorbitant? Does that behavior feel like extortion? Have they done that before?
You don't have to pay cloudflare anything at all for them to act as CDN and provide basic DDoS protections.