[jadoint]

I opted to use CloudFlare almost as soon as they launched and they indeed had some uptime issues in the beginning. But I stuck with them and I haven't had any issues for a long while now even at 180M page views / month.

There was one time where I had just upgraded a server at a host and load averages just spiked. Host techs were clueless as well as the server admin I hired to diagnose the issue. They surmised that it was a DDoS attack and to turn off CloudFlare because it might be a cause (what?). Well I'm not a server admin so what do I know and I asked CloudFlare about it. They said there were no problems on their end. After a month of stressful, intermittent downtimes, I decided to just switch to Softlayer, and lo and behold, the issues went away. Turned out that one of the SSDs in the RAID array was dying but the techs at the other host just never bothered to look at it.

If you ever do figure out the issues, try giving them another shot. Their features are excellent and I hate to say it but my applications are now so dependent on them to the point where important parts will break if I even try to move to a competitor (and there are none).