There is one, and only one, legit case for running everything through CloudFlare – when your site is at high risk of DDoS and you can’t risk exposing the source IP of your site. There are some other topics here on that, the danger is that the IP can be revealed through some obscure output somewhere so you have to be very sure there are no IP leaks or all is lost.
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