[goatsi]

It's pretty disappointing that the author (writing in 2025) says "perhaps to maintain its status as the world’s largest botnet operator," and links to a Spamhaus report from Q1 of 2020.[0]

If you check the most recent version of the report from Spamhaus (Jan to June 2025)[1], Cloudflare is nowhere to be seen, and Digital Ocean, who they recommend as a Cloudflare alternative is listed as third largest botnet host in the world.

Looking back through the historical reports this isn't a new phenomenon, in Q4 of 2022 Digital Ocean was ranked #2 and Cloudflare was down at #17.

[0]https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/botnet-c-c/botnet-thre...

[1]https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/botnet-c-c/botnet-thre...

[darkwater]

Yes, I agree. The anti-monopolistic spirit of the post is good but when you read sentences like that or recommending "major cloud services" as an alternative, well, it starts to smell like a hit piece.

[simultsop]

It is sad. The post could be a paragraph of basically ending with negative attributes of oligo and mono polies. Which are what should be evaded.

Other than that, alternatives do not go far as cloudflare does. If you experience a heavy DDOS, either you bankrupt with a large invoice or you suffer heavy outage.

I do not understand why this primary service misses to be listed. Nobody in the planet offers DDOS free, especially to news agencies at their difficult times.