[ianbishop]

I'm happy to hear that CloudFare was able to help out in this situation.

I am especially happy because I came to know CloudFare not through HN, but through constantly seeing their failed cache page.

Edit: That sounds really brash, but I sincerely do mean that they have lots of clients that I frequent and if their reliability improves, it will prove to be very valuable.

[xxdesmus]

Just as a note -- a site offline page indicates a back end origin server issue in the vast majority of instances. That wouldn't be short coming of CloudFlare though if the back end web server is having issues.