> When did everyone decide they needed Cloudflare for everything? I think it was when Reddit and other social link platforms were becoming established, the lin

> When did everyone decide they needed Cloudflare for everything? I think it was when Reddit and other social link platforms were becoming established, the linked sites would go viral and then the traffic would do an unintended DDOS. Cloudflare and other providers offered free DDOS protection, then it became a defacto standard to have a CDN