Great to see it working! I have not experienced the service being unavailable since you added Cloudflare.
Were you perhaps looking for more people to help you operate and maintain steemit.chat? You noted this was not supposed to be your life's work, and @deltik (has rocket.chat experience) and I would be keen to get involved. We run the @gridcoin.science witness - first to operate on minimal hardware using zram memory compression as detailed here, technical overview here.