You seriously think AWS or Google is going to shut down a private independent journalism website because of a Twitter storm? When has that happened in the past that makes it remotely possible?

If Cloudflare can be pressured to withdraw hosting for Daily Stormer, it's not hard to imagine AWS withdrawing hosting for Daily Stormer as well.

Well, there is room for a small continent between Gleen Greenwald and that nazi paper.

Repeat to remove all possibility of misunderstanding: DS is a nazi paper.

Glenn Greenwald is a aeard winning journalist.

This is a fair counterexample I had forgotten about.

Ultimately you just need to own a domain. You have to get pretty damn extreme before domains are confiscated.

Without Cloudflare & co, your domain will exist but your site won't be usable.

There are many many hosting providers. You are unlikely to get banned from all of them.

A hosting provider without strong DDOS-protection does not make your site work, and they will quickly kick you out when their infrastructure suffers because of attacks against your site.

CF & co can protect against DDOS primarily because they fight tooth and nail and weather the storm when a customer is attacked. Attackers know that they won't succeed, that's why they don't even try, and that's why CF doesn't have to deal with constant attacks against their clients. Your average hosting company will quickly fold against a large attack, and will then have to make a decision: suffer the attack, or kick you from their servers. It's obvious that they will kick you out.

Keeping a website available against opponents with some money to spend gives you a handful of companies that you can rely on.