How the heck do I avoid Cloudflare when selecting a web host, please? I was considering getting a DigitalOcean “droplet” and running something in that, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be inside Cloudflare’s evil embrace.
I asked in what I thought was an obvious place but was met by bewildered looks.
If you want to verify if DigitalOcean itself is running Cloudflare, you can just: curl --head https://www.digitalocean.com. As for verifying the droplet, you would have to do the same for a site you know is using DigitalOcean (I don’t know of any).
I’m unsure if the droplets themselves running Cloudflare even matters if the site you have to go through to get the droplets runs Cloudflare to begin with.
As for my recommended hosting service, I’d say either Gandi or Njalla. There’s also 1984 Hosting, but I can’t vouch for it because I haven’t used it yet.