I've been considering Cloudflare for caching, DDoS protection and WAF, but I don't like furthering the centralization of the Web. And my host (Vultr) has had fa

I've been considering Cloudflare for caching, DDoS protection and WAF, but I don't like furthering the centralization of the Web. And my host (Vultr) has had fantastic uptime over the 10 years I've been on them. How are others doing this? How is Hacker News hosted/protected?