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If you need DDoS mitigation then you essentially need to rely on a third party. Every third party will have inevitable downtime. For many it’s just whether you’d prefer to be down while everyone else is down or not.

A lot of business would accept the rare downtime from Cloudflare in exchange for the DDoS protection.

If the internet was always a nice place we wouldn't need Cloudflare and similar :(

You also have the power to not pay money to big tech