[ericclemmons]

True, but the most important thing is that it worked.

This scenario is actually daunting for most small sites: it's four days out, you're about to get tons of traffic, and keep it to yourself :)

Setting up Google-load-capable infrastructure in 4 days is trivial for some you on hackernews, but non-trivial for others.

Cloudflare sounds like a convenient, drop-in solution for when you don't know how to configuring your own reverse-proxy.

[nl]

Cloudflare is much, much more than a reverse-proxy. It is more comparable to Contendo (now part of Akamai), but Contendo charged thousands for what CloudFlare does for free.