Not true at all: "With most of CloudFlare's rival services, even those that have a seemingly larger network footprint, the minute you ask them to enable SSL the

Not true at all: "With most of CloudFlare's rival services, even those that have a seemingly larger network footprint, the minute you ask them to enable SSL the size of the network shrinks to something that resembles our network today. That's because they too don't feel comfortable storing customers' private keys in many of their edge nodes. And that's why most legacy CDN providers charge such such an enormous premium the minute you ask them to support SSL." They are perfectly capable of running SSL on the Edge. The reason for the increased price is that you will get a dedicated IP which in most cases means not only 1 IP but 1 IP per region in which the CDN is active. And IPs are becoming a scarce resource. You can also see this expressed in the fact that if you accept a shared IP and SNI certificate (so not EV) you'll get lower prices of most of the major CDNs.