To host a Wordpress (as an example) site, you need to set up Wordpress and add content. To do anything with Cloudflare, you have to set up an account and configure things. If you don't use Cloudflare, you don't have to set it up. How could that be anything but extra work? Also, it's not standard - it's their own thing. And what happens if you use a VPN, or a provider that they don't like, or if you live in an area that Cloudflare simply doesn't like?
I have no idea how people putting up Wordpress honeypots is related to this discussion, but for everything else, you're advocating treating symptoms and ignoring the problem.
If you, or anyone else, want to run a Wordpress site and you expect a firewall or DDoS service to protect you from stupidity, it might work for a time, but it's not the best idea. If you don't rename your wp-login.php, that's on you. If you install 27 plugins that you don't really need then ignore the fact that they'll need constant updates, that's on you. But those are common sense things - again, the root issue should be addressed, so the symptoms never happen.
Also, if bots banging on your wp-login.php and/or "ton of bad traffic" are what you consider a DDoS, perhaps you really should consider basic site security. We call "a ton of bad traffic" normal.
I'd much rather a site that has fundamentally fewer problems than a poorly configured one that's "protected" by Cloudflare.
Oh - and what does "most also didn't care about users outside their own country" have to do with it? You're advocating FOR the idea of stratifying the Internet? Then I guess you really are a fan of what Cloudflare is doing!
I have no idea how people putting up Wordpress honeypots is related to this discussion, but for everything else, you're advocating treating symptoms and ignoring the problem.
If you, or anyone else, want to run a Wordpress site and you expect a firewall or DDoS service to protect you from stupidity, it might work for a time, but it's not the best idea. If you don't rename your wp-login.php, that's on you. If you install 27 plugins that you don't really need then ignore the fact that they'll need constant updates, that's on you. But those are common sense things - again, the root issue should be addressed, so the symptoms never happen.
Also, if bots banging on your wp-login.php and/or "ton of bad traffic" are what you consider a DDoS, perhaps you really should consider basic site security. We call "a ton of bad traffic" normal.
I'd much rather a site that has fundamentally fewer problems than a poorly configured one that's "protected" by Cloudflare.
Oh - and what does "most also didn't care about users outside their own country" have to do with it? You're advocating FOR the idea of stratifying the Internet? Then I guess you really are a fan of what Cloudflare is doing!