>2022
>host your own webserver, mail, pleroma, etc
>get an email from cloudflare
>they want to sell me their services at discount rate
>mention how my site is not protected from DDoS attacks
>politely ignore
>week later my webserver is ddosed, attack seems to be coming from some chinese crypto farm
>not giving in, it's not that important, waiting for it to blow over
>another week later, attack is still going strong, i get bill from my hosting provider that i owe them 1000€ in penalties for DDoS and that i do not use DDoS protection service
>try to get to support
>my fucking adblock breaks
>literally every ad i see is about cloudflare