It&#x27;s not &quot;a lot less than other providers&quot;. You know what happens when someone starts DDOSing one of my AWS servers? I get a CloudWatch alert saying &quot;high inbound traffic&quot; and that&#x27;s it. They don&#x27;t black hole the thing and cut off all traffic. Then, I can log in, see what&#x27;s happening, and take my time diagnosing the problem. Even under a fairly heavy DDOS I never feared losing access. With DO, the black hole happens before the email alert. It&#x27;s a terrible policy and I can&#x27;t use or recommend DO until it&#x27;s changed. I can&#x27;t stick CloudFlare in front of every server I own.