If you use cloudflare you give up freedom not to force captcha. If you avoid them you can choose where you want to captcha. When cloudflare goes down you go d

If you use cloudflare you give up freedom not to force captcha. If you avoid them you can choose where you want to captcha. When cloudflare goes down you go down unnecessarily. If worried about a ddos attack cloudflare or another provider might be a good choice. But adding ddos support by default seems unncessary. In my 20 years of running 100s of sites I haven't run into a situation where I need ddos support. The vast majority will never be the target. Once in awhile google or bing will ddos you but using cloudflare to block that seems like overkill.