[tristador]

CF is undoubtedly good for DDoS protection, but that doesn't negate the fact that it does other things poorly.

FWIW I've found more websites that prompt for Cloudflare captcha than I've seen websites offline due to DDoS. I've seen lots of websites offline because they get too popular though. Many websites that I've known were currently under DDoS attack stayed online while I used them (like GitHub using Akamai).

At the risk of Troy writing a blog post proving me wrong... does the average static website need DDoS protection? I'd guess they don't.