@hazardwarning That sounds good and frustrating. I’ve never bothered with Cloudflare.
I did use Dreamhost for shared hosting for a bit before migrating to a VPS on Digital Ocean. I recall finding the Dreamhost control panel kind of overwhelming and also hard to wrangle.
I now just use Dreamhost as registrar. Hurricane Electric handles my DNS, and Digital Ocean gives me a VPS to point the whole shebang at.
/@matigo