AWS and Cloudflare are HN darlings. Go so far as to even suggest a random personal blog doesn't need Cloudflare and get downvoted with inane comments as "but what about DDOS protection?!"

The truth is one under the age of 35 is able to configure a webserver any more, apparently. Especially now that static site generators are in vogue and you don't even need to worry about php-fpm.