It's DDoS protection that cloudflare can handle, and provide subsidized, that makes it so valuable. I too am interested in what competing services are availabl

It's DDoS protection that cloudflare can handle, and provide subsidized, that makes it so valuable. I too am interested in what competing services are available to protect dns / routing from DDoS.. Without cloudflare protecting the server ip / DNS, it only takes a few people using [script name] to essentially make a web site inaccessible (via Denial or Service attacks). If many people want to brigade and create DDoS against a site it can be impossible for people to use it to communicate with it / through it. Not sure there is a good / strong enough alternative, and not sure what the average / semi strong alternatives are at this time actually.