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.
One of the biggest appeals of CloudFlare (aside from DDoS protection) is they don’t charge absurd[1] prices for bandwidth egress. AWS, et al have honestly predatory bandwidth pricing, they could be 1/5 and still profitable.
So given the choice of paying $30 in AWS egress that could balloon to hundreds, or a flat $20/mo, it’s not hard to see why so many people choose CloudFlare.
unless you’re big enough they think they can shake you down ↩︎