It's kind of stupid to me that the massive and advanced cdn of akamai protect something as non-important as a blog against such a major ddos attack. If they wer

It's kind of stupid to me that the massive and advanced cdn of akamai protect something as non-important as a blog against such a major ddos attack. If they were doing it pro-bono wouldn't the prudent action be to mitigate ddos's until a certain treshold and then actually assess the value of what you are protecting? A good lesson to have learned, I believe. But no, they'll drop this client which had to have continually given good referrals.