Comment by lifthrasiir
8 years ago
Ultimately I believe CF is sustaining its business by filling a gap in the Internet, namely DDoS protection. Until somehow the gap is closed we will see CF-like services continue to be popular even after this incident.
So there is no cheap in-house solution to DDoS but CF?
CF's success (especially in the free plan) suggests that this might be actually true---I'm afraid I cannot prove or disprove the claim (that's why I believe so). My observation comes from drawing the parallel to djb's Internet Mail 2000 [1], which tries to counter spams by changing mail storage to the sender's responsibility.
[1] https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html