[anexprogrammer]

Not sure I'd want a VPN via a VPS, as you'd lose the anonymity of being just one of a swarm using a particular IP point of presence. Though you'd probably get fewer CF captchas, but all traffic would be you.

I've no idea how clever CF are (tempted to quip clearly not clever enough) to decide their sites or their network is under attack. I'd imagine there's going to be a lot of connections from PIA's users, from all the various regional exits. Same for all the other VPN companies. I can't believe they can't be distinguished from a real DDOS or whatever else they see as "bad traffic".

Where Cloudflare start winding me up is they treat each domain alone. I get a captcha on blog a, 30 seconds later I'll get another at company b, 5s another at blog c. If CF gave me a 3 or 24 hour cookie I'd hate them so much less! (There's a couple of ways around captcha madness - If I switch to another exit I can usually get a captcha free one)

PIA is paid, but good value - around $35 a year.