True, but the most important thing is that it worked. This scenario is actually daunting for most small sites: it's four days out, you're about to get tons of

True, but the most important thing is that it worked. This scenario is actually daunting for most small sites: it's four days out, you're about to get tons of traffic, and keep it to yourself :) Setting up Google-load-capable infrastructure in 4 days is trivial for some you on hackernews, but non-trivial for others. Cloudflare sounds like a convenient, drop-in solution for when you don't know how to configuring your own reverse-proxy.