SSL. SSL is easy on a single server, but gets complex&#x2F;expensive very fast on cloud platforms. Cloudflare have an incredibly easy solution (branded &quot;flexible SSL&quot;) where they handle the SSL between the client and their CDN, and the CDN does un-encrypted requests to your platform.<p>Yes, this is a security shambles - Cloudflare is officially MITM-ing your traffic. But given the HTTPS-only movement this is a perfectly valid solution for public websites. And this announcement actually makes a big difference because if your platform is Google Cloud, then the un-encrypted portion is now over a private Cloudflare-Google interconnect.<p>FWIW, I&#x27;ve been using Cloudflare for 6 months and haven&#x27;t seen any drop-outs. It&#x27;s improved latency, and the only issue I&#x27;ve had was it mangling email addresses in transit, to prevent scrapers. It took 3 minutes to find the setting and switch it off, so I&#x27;m OK with that. Although I would prefer things that modify your HTML should be off by default.