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I was using CloudFlare on a site that has a wide overseas following with a lot of visitors from different continents. I was getting a lot of complaints that the site was terribly slow. When I went back to just serving the site directly from it's server in Atlanta, the complaints ceased.

Since then I have been hesitant to use it again.

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You get a lot of "testing your browser" delays if you're from certain regions, also the annoying captcha gateway if behind a big mobile NAT that was blacklisted somewhere because of one spammer or maliscious user, or if using some VPNs/Tor especially the free tier VPNs

This is part of their security features. All of them can be disabled if you want.

Oh so that's what it is. I think Namecheap must be using it too because I see this darn message every time I load their site "We're testing if you're human or robot" and it wastes like 10 seconds of my time.

People think that "loading gears" animation on Google blog is annoying, think if it showed up every time for 10 seconds on a company's homepage.

It is the only reason I've considered leaving Namecheap so many times (but haven't because except for this they are better at everything else)

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