Whatever you do, unless you have their bandwidth capacity, at some point those "self-hosted" will get flooded with traffic.
The fact that cloudflare can literally ready every bit of communication (as it sits between the client and your server) is already plenty bad. And yet, we accept this more easily, then a bit of downtime. We shall not ask about the prices for that service ;)
To me its nothing more then the whole "everybody on the cloud" issue, when most do not need the resource that cloud companies like AWS provide (and the bill), and yet, get totally tied down to this one service.
I am getting old lol ...
What is the cost of many-9s uptime from Cloudflare? For DDoS protection it is $0/month on their free tier:
Its free as long as you really are small, not worth milking. The moment you can afford to run your own mini dc at your office, you start to enter the "well, hello there" for CF.
As someone who has (and is) runs (running) a DC with all the electrical/UPS, cooling, piping, HVAC+D stuff to deal with: it can be a lot of just time/overhead.
Especially if you don't have a number of folks in-house to deal with all that 'non-IT' equipment (I'm a bit strange in that I have an interest in both IT and HVAC-y stuff).
The bandwidth costs of a ddos alone would close down a small shop.
Cloudflare provide an incredibly good service with a great track record, and sometimes shit happens.
