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How on earth could I, as a customer, be sure that netlify hadn't paid someone to DDOS me? If I were in charge of a business like that, I would have that thought constantly...

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Why go through that effort when they could just lie about site usage and say you incurred a bunch of traffic? Or make fake site "hits" from localhost?

It's really the trade-off for using any cloud host. You are implicitly trusting the host, their monitoring tools, their billing system, and their customer support when things go wrong

Both of those could be exposed via an audit or a whistleblower, either of which would destroy the company and its reputation overnight.

As opposed to just negligently allowing it from the outside?

Netlify still looks terrible here.

This is insane conspiratorial thinking? How would being the only host that happens to get DDOSed constantly be a good business proposition?

If you charge them for the extra bandwidth usage, it is. Not saying it's morally right, but definitely something a shady business would do. There's nothing "conspiratorial" about that. You'd be surprised how many conflicts of interest Big Gov and Big Business find themselves in.

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