Just looking at pages.cloudflare.com now and I think I'm going to be using cloudflare from now on.
I'm trying to sign up but it keeps saying "Verification is taking longer than expected. Check your Internet connection and refresh the page if the issue persists."
Does anyone else experience this as well?
That's the Cloudflare user experience in a nutshell. Your users will see the same thing when they visit your Cloudflare-hosted site.
As a heads up, you can disable challenges almost entirely if you don't want any visitors challenged. Security -> Settings -> Security Level -> Essentially off