Mark, thanks for taking the time to address these concerns and to Marcelo for his questions that mirror my own so precisley.
I agree performance and protection are mutual bedfellows and thats why I use Cloudflare. Is the system copativble with Cloudflare? I ask as i have just had my first outage on http://www.globallifecover.com since we went live 2 months ago and it *may* have coincided with Falcon. (I say may because the time window was 30 mins so it could be a coincidence).
I would be greatly reassured to hear that it was tested against Cloudflare and that the two can live happily together.
Many thanks
Martin