Although I work for CloudFlare there are some products that I haven't experienced as a customer and it's always fun and useful to actually behave as a customer and try them out. I like to do this to make sure the experience is good and try to spot bugs. CloudFlare recently released a feature called Origin CA that generates a certificate you can drop onto your web server to ensure that the connection between CloudFlare and the server is secure. CloudFlare also offers a feature called Universal SSL that offers free SSL connections for the connection between a web browser and CloudFlare. Put the two together and you've got SSL from browser to CloudFlare and CloudFlare to the origin web server. Neat. One of my domains, plan28.org, had a web site that was served over HTTP and I decided to SSL it using CloudFlare. I'd seen it demoed but there's nothing like trying it out for yourself. It was really quick to get set up. plan28.org is on CloudFlare's free tier