What is telling and really quite surprising is this:
@krakenfx let's get the facts straight. Credit card provided for payment expired. After 3 warnings you were downgraded to a free account.
Checking Cloudflare's plans and based on the above, they are using the second most basic plan available.
https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/$20/month with basic DDoS protection. Whereas the proper Pro and Business Plans, which would have allowed invoice billing (thus 'credit card expired' wouldn't have been an issue), utilize much more layered protection plans as well as up time guarantees.
Why in the world would they cheap out of their bread and butter, the service to keep the operation running full time.