Fun fact about Cloudflare. Considering the amount of computing power in their network, the services they offer - even the paid ones - are priced way below what they actually cost.
Combine this with turning over your SSL certificate private keys to this private company for their flagship DDoS prevention service, it's pretty clear they're backed by government money.
Cloudflare is probably running on the same logic as the ISPs, the banks and your average airline: you can sell more bandwidth than you have, as long as you don't expect everyone to need it at the same time. And there's certainly logic to that if there's not enough botnet to go around.
Fun fact about Cloudflare. Considering the amount of computing power in their network, the services they offer - even the paid ones - are priced way below what they actually cost.
Combine this with turning over your SSL certificate private keys to this private company for their flagship DDoS prevention service, it's pretty clear they're backed by government money.
Well, maybe that wasn't very fun of a fact.
Cloudflare is probably running on the same logic as the ISPs, the banks and your average airline: you can sell more bandwidth than you have, as long as you don't expect everyone to need it at the same time. And there's certainly logic to that if there's not enough botnet to go around.