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Cloudflare is definitely worth the effort if you have the traffic to support it. It's primary mission is DDoS protection, and as a sort of side effect of that, you get a distributed CDN (content delivery network) with (relatively) localized caching of static assets. When you have a lot of traffic, that will dramatically reduce the number of requests that actually make it to the primary server (in this case, the x10Hosting server), but the assets all have to be requested to begin with, and caches will always invalidate, so if you have next to no traffic (in the "internet scale" sense of things) or if the traffic is not to the same set of assets, it can be just another delay (with DDoS protection added). If you have a page that "goes viral", though — slashdotted, reddited, or whatever the kewl kids are calling it these days — you can serve an awful lot more viewers with Cloudflare than without.