[yunohn]

Is your claim that Basement Bob’s raspberry pi could withstand the kind of attacks that companies like Cloudflare handle?

Eg - https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/

[csande17]

I think the parent comment's claim is that serving a CAPTCHA page to potential attackers may actually be more resource intensive than serving a lightweight page that has the actual content on it.

[yunohn]

So, you posit, that Cloudflare has never thought of this before or weighed the pros/cons before building an entire business out of it? Sure.

[csande17]

Typically, the pages that Cloudflare protects are not especially lightweight or efficient.

[nonrandomstring]

No. It's that Basement Bob's Raspberry Pi doesn't need to.

[yunohn]

I don’t think your line of reasoning was very coherent, and displayed a lack of understanding of reality.