[Touche]

Everyone who makes this argument always assumes that every website on the internet is a for-profit business when in reality the vast majority of websites are not trying to make any profit at all, they are not businesses. In those cases yes absolutely they want them to be brought down.

[jiggawatts]

Or instead of an outage, simply have a bandwidth cap or request rate cap, same as in the good old days when we had a wire coming out of the back of the server with a fixed maximum bandwidth and predictable pricing.

[acoustics]

There are plenty of options on the market with fixed bandwidth and predictable pricing. But for various reasons, these businesses prefer the highly scalable cloud services. They signed up for this