[mathgradthrow]

How on earth could I, as a customer, be sure that netlify hadn't paid someone to DDOS me? If I were in charge of a business like that, I would have that thought constantly...

[rpgwaiter]

Why go through that effort when they could just lie about site usage and say you incurred a bunch of traffic? Or make fake site "hits" from localhost?

It's really the trade-off for using any cloud host. You are implicitly trusting the host, their monitoring tools, their billing system, and their customer support when things go wrong

[Cthulhu_]

Both of those could be exposed via an audit or a whistleblower, either of which would destroy the company and its reputation overnight.

[evilduck]

As opposed to just negligently allowing it from the outside?

Netlify still looks terrible here.

[natnat]

This is insane conspiratorial thinking? How would being the only host that happens to get DDOSed constantly be a good business proposition?

[cookiemonsieur]

If you charge them for the extra bandwidth usage, it is. Not saying it's morally right, but definitely something a shady business would do. There's nothing "conspiratorial" about that. You'd be surprised how many conflicts of interest Big Gov and Big Business find themselves in.