a lot of people feel that the outsourcing was unnecessary for a lot of low-traffic sites, and was mainly the result of marketing pushing cloudflare to everyone.

a lot of people feel that the outsourcing was unnecessary for a lot of low-traffic sites, and was mainly the result of marketing pushing cloudflare to everyone. It doesn't make sense that some tiny blogs go down when there's a cloudflare outage. And it creates side effects too: e.g. cloudflare's anti-spam checks make it nearly impossible to create a functioning link fetcher/previewer unless you re a big enough site to ask for a manual exception.