Comment by sznio
10 hours ago
There's plenty of DDoS if you're dealing with people petty enough.
The VPS I use will nuke your instance if you run a game server. Not due to resource usage, but because it attracts DDoS like nothing else. Ban a teen for being an asshole and expect your service to be down for a week. And there isn't really Cloudflare for independent game servers. There's Steam Networking but it requires the developer to support it and of course Steam.
Valve's GDC talk about DDoS mitigation for games: https://youtu.be/2CQ1sxPppV4
> And there isn't really Cloudflare for independent game servers
And yet game servers still work fine. Which answers this subthread's question ("how likely is it to get DDoSed if you don't have Cloudflare"), answer: not very likely, it happens once in a while at most.