Small business here. I get hit with DDoS attacks (sometimes as large as 1 Gbps) frequently enough that I won't touch cloud services. I do use Backblaze and Wasa

Small business here. I get hit with DDoS attacks (sometimes as large as 1 Gbps) frequently enough that I won't touch cloud services. I do use Backblaze and Wasabi for user uploads but I proxy them through Nginx (with local caching). My host, OVH, does OK filtering some of the obvious bad traffic, but application level DDoSs get through. I don't really understand the CDN business. I've got a ~130ms ping to my web apps from where I am right now, and can't say I've noticed it compared to the 60ms ping I had before. If I put my stuff on a CDN, it speeds up loading static assets the first time the page loads (nice). But then I have to worry about the CDN going down and taking me with them, or getting my account disabled by some algorithm in the fraud department (see Cloudflare posts from last week). Seems like a high price to pay.