There will always be a rug they can and likely will pull out from underneath you.
If not Cloudflare, then your IP transit, or your colocation, or your ICANN, or simply blackhole your IP/ASN
Will need to do what the thepiratebay did and have tens/hundreds of proxies hosting the web frontend, whitelisted to hit a centralized or distrubuted sql server.
Cloudflare is not the only game in town, and it is possible to find a smaller/medium sized DDoS solution that will be a more personal relationship with the owner.
Building your own DDoS solution would involve a team of engineers, 6 or so at $100-200K per year, plus about $20-50k/month in bandwidth capacity say 100-500gb/s and maybe $250K-1M in hardware.
There will always be a rug they can and likely will pull out from underneath you.
If not Cloudflare, then your IP transit, or your colocation, or your ICANN, or simply blackhole your IP/ASN
Will need to do what the thepiratebay did and have tens/hundreds of proxies hosting the web frontend, whitelisted to hit a centralized or distrubuted sql server.
Cloudflare is not the only game in town, and it is possible to find a smaller/medium sized DDoS solution that will be a more personal relationship with the owner.
Building your own DDoS solution would involve a team of engineers, 6 or so at $100-200K per year, plus about $20-50k/month in bandwidth capacity say 100-500gb/s and maybe $250K-1M in hardware.