It's more the location of cloudflare's data center your interested in as all their traffic gets sent there first and then redirected.
Is that true even when Clouflare is not activated?
I thought cloudflare was always activated here. Theymos just changes the security of that cloudflare service. Traffic will probably still go through the cloudflare service's data centre before it reaches here. I.E the checking your browser screen probably only cones when there's a certain number of pings per second.