Still, cloudflare is better than any firewall or iptables or addon because:

- it blocks before the request touches your server
- it filters 90% of known evil stuff by its own
- it magically detects ddos attacks already
- no hassle with setup and updates on your server like 3rd party software

the free version is enough, the paid version only protects against most sql injection and other kind of attacks.

Yep.

Keep in mind that Cloudflare.com can slow down your user's experience. At least that is what I found to be true.

I sure haven't seen any of that or even had it reported. Just the opposite.

How does it slow anything down? It speeds mine up greatly.

Affected page load.

Local Server could display page in 2 seconds and Cloudflare added 3 - 5 seconds on top of that

Never seen anything like that or ever heard of it.

I can confirm it does slow the loading down had to remove it from my forums because of this

Stunning.

Not really. I had to remove it as it messed up my CPanel admin emails for the site. And I noticed no speed increase, or decrease, whatsoever.

Cloudfare kick sites with to many traffic.