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@Velocio
I'm going to remove CloudFlare.
I am unconvinced by it because:
1) Google PageSpeed reports that pages are now taking longer to load
2) GoogleBot reports that pages now take more than twice as long to load
3) PayPal IPN reports errors communicating with LFGSS.com and this is leading to issues in processing payments
4) Users are occasionally seeing CloudFlare "Site Down" pages when all of the servers report that they are fine and I have no evidence that the site is actually down.
And what I feel is the biggest reason:
5) The tools and interfaces provided by CloudFlare offer no way to solve the above issues. I don't have the transparency into their systems that allow me to debug these events. I cannot see when the Site Down page is served, average time to serve an uncached page, etc... and without that info I cannot cross-reference it to my own logs to then solve any issue.
As far as I can tell, CloudFlare is not a good solution for a site that is largely dynamic, though may well be a great solution for a mostly static site (blog or corporate site).
The removal won't be instant, I want to keep the site up without issue during the last of the Olympic track events.