So true. HN often admires complexity for complexity sake.

Even without cloudflare, a static website on 5 VPS from 5 different provider on 5 different continents with a Round Robin DNS and a low TTL will get you most of the bangs for bucks

Add geoIP to the mix (like from Azure) and you're golden, even if you are just scp'ing files to 5 VPS.

If a DC burns down, remove the A record (or even better: have a script do it for you) and reroute to the remaining 4.

Extra bonus: you can fire the DevOps team :)