I hear you, but their DDoS services are painful to the rest of the world and to people who want or need to use Tor, and others. I'm talking about their rather

I hear you, but their DDoS services are painful to the rest of the world and to people who want or need to use Tor, and others. I'm talking about their rather political move to re-centralize DNS by shoehorning themselves in to Firefox via DoH, for instance. Their unwillingness to be transparent makes this all the more frightening. Add to that their blatant desire to make money at the cost of doing the right thing (and I'm talking about unambiguous things - is someone going to argue that freedom of speech allows people run a phishing site of your bank?), and you've got a scenario where once they reach critical mass, they will be exercising their position to the detriment of everyone who isn't paying them, similarly to how Gmail, through doing and not communicating, say "screw you" to many small email services. When people who don't use large providers have email issues with Gmail, lots of people have knee-jerk reactions saying that everything should move to the big providers, that people and small businesses should not host their own email, and so on. This is NOT the way the Internet should work, and we should never allow Gmail to just arbitrarily do whatever they want, then accept it as the new normal. If you have more than a dozen megabits of outgoing bandwidth, you can easily host a blog from your home network which can handle a front paging here. Just don't expect to dynamically generate a new copy of the site for every visitor, and if your bandwidth is tight, then host your images on a static server off of your network. Cloudflare is not necessary - perhaps it's easier, but it isn't necessarily best to blindly trust a company that wants to become a monopoly.