Even if Start9 did support clearnet, you wouldn't. You would use the cloudflare proxy service so you don't expose your home IP. Your only alternative would be to use a data center.

So, if you're going to proxy through cloudflare, you may be as well just use a vpn tunnel for the proxy and then you won't have to worry exposing anything personal.

And I can vouch for the cloudflare ddos protection. It works.