Then what’s the alternative? If I don’t use a service like Cloudflare I have to invest a lot of time and money into making sure my servers accept the traffic I

Then what’s the alternative? If I don’t use a service like Cloudflare I have to invest a lot of time and money into making sure my servers accept the traffic I want and reject the traffic I don’t. This isn’t an ethics dilemma, bad actors wreck a lot of innocent people’s lives all the time it wasn’t going to stop on the internet.