>Because websites with almost no visitors are hit the hardest. A hundreds bots per minute hitting your server (if you host any kind of source code) versus one real visitor every other day is a great scenario to protect against.
a $10 VPS hosting a static website can trivially serve a thousand pages per second.
I have a few fuckass websites hosted together on the cheapest VPS I could find, and the last time I got an automated alert about downtime was a decade ago.
there is simply no incentive for anyone to ddos a random website.
>The Russian government being stupid and evil isn't really Cloudflare's problem to solve.
didn't imply it was, it was just an observation that everyone uses Cloudflare now.
a $10 VPS hosting a static website can trivially serve a thousand pages per second.
I have a few fuckass websites hosted together on the cheapest VPS I could find, and the last time I got an automated alert about downtime was a decade ago.
there is simply no incentive for anyone to ddos a random website.
>The Russian government being stupid and evil isn't really Cloudflare's problem to solve.
didn't imply it was, it was just an observation that everyone uses Cloudflare now.