I have said that it's not a vertically integrated service. Others are. Like S3. Or GCP. Cloudflare makes it possible to avoid the big clouds and do your own hos

I have said that it's not a vertically integrated service. Others are. Like S3. Or GCP. Cloudflare makes it possible to avoid the big clouds and do your own hosting or to use a smaller hosting company. As for the millions of websites going offline. Surely, Cloudflare has tons of customers. It's an internet scale company. If they act sloppy and have tons of downtime a competitor might take over. If it's hard to architect a DDoS protection service in a robust way then that's just the world we live in. But I think you should appreciate that Cloudflare sells DDoS protection (their core product atm) without selling you a big package like http serving or root servers.