I'm surprised you haven't completely jumped ship already, considering that there are two other providers in particular that offer very similar specs and prices to Linode. Where I work, we moved our primary infrastructure off of Linode the night after the attacks started.

I've tried a lot over the years, no one can compare to the VPS quality Linode provides is what I found.

All (major) providers suffer from DDoS attacks.

When was the last successful sustained (1 week plus) CloudFlare, GCE, or AWS DDoS attack?

I have no idea.

CloudFlare doesn't offer VPS instances. Google and Amazon are in a league of their own and, last I checked, don't offer the similar services at the same prices with the same level of support and same controls. Amazon might send you a nice bill at the end of the attack depending on what type it was.

DigitalOcean, as an example, routinely receives DDoS attacks and will just nullroute your VPS automatically until the attack ends.

Its a concern of mine with AWS, no downtime but a $30k for the day of fun bill. Got to tie up this loose end before I wake up broke one day.

There are VPS providers that offer DDoS protection in the 10-20Gbps range, but that is a piddle in the ocean these days.

Which ones and protection against what attacks?

Ramnode, Vultr, others.