Cloudflare is the only company that provides DDOS protection services for small websites while everything else is inferior as well as hyperinflated due to being targeted at major companies.
We need a company to provide DDOS protection services that will serve us and only us while being content neutral in terms of profiction site policies.
Cloudflare's stance didn't save it from the Italian Government's telecom regulator who promptly blocked its services and therefore websites on February 24th using them through its Piracy Shield to which all ISPs and VPNs must obey by law (it's why AirVPN no longer serve Italian residents).
You'd need to be hosted in a friendly country and you'll struggle when every country in the world wants to move to a system where they have digital border controls for Internet data going in and out of their country and a regulated national Intranet for residents.