Cloudflare
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare speeds up and accelerates your site by distributing your sites content around the world then delivering it using the fattest pipes and the best protocols. By using HTTP/2 with an SPDY fallback, Cloudflare can deliver content rapidly to your end users. Using 79 datacenters (and growing) around the world, Cloudflare can ensure your content is never too far away from your end user. Through Railgun, Cloudflare can eliminate costly delays caused by the speed of light when distributing dynamic content.
Cloudflare has consistently set records for mitigating the largest DDOS attacks. Cloudflare can protect your website from content scraping through reputation checks and application level attacks through a Web Application Firewall (e.g. for SQL Injection and XSS attacks). When Cloudflare successfully defended Spamhaus, Akamai's chief architect stated it was "the largest publicly announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet."
Cloudflare operates one of the fastest and most secure DNS networks in the world with advanced functionality including CNAME Flattening and Instant DNS Updates.
Key benefits of Cloudflare
Cloudflare protects web traffic transmitted over WebSockets or HTTP, while also offering a DNS hosting service. Cloudflare can mitigate attacks to web applications through protecting your web hosting by routing requests through Cloudflare. Additionally, Cloudflare's extensive network, which spans across 100 cities in 49 countries, means that content can be cached and accelerated at high speed to your end user regardless of server location. By distributing this content over the latest web protocols such as HTTP/2 and SPDY, Cloudflare ensures that web applications are loading and operating at the fastest speeds possible. Cloudflare also offers Content and Image Optimization to enhance speeds across all web properties.
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- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Most secure content delivery network for website of any size
Reviewed on 29/4/2021
I'm using Cloudflare for years and never faced any significant issue. I'm overall happy with their...
I'm using Cloudflare for years and never faced any significant issue. I'm overall happy with their product and services.
Pros
Cloudflare allows many advance features even for free users. Like DNSSEC in Cloudflare DNS, Cloudflare proxy, I'm under attack mode and so on. Further, ClouFlare optimizes the content of the hosted websites by minifying codes and make websites a lot faster.
Cons
Cloudflare free plan and even the business plan doesn't allow users to bring their own SSL certificates. This is a very basic and necessary feature. To upload custom SSL you need to purchase an enterprise plan with a $200/month rental, which is quite costly.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
CDN, Internal Network Security, WAF. Cloudflare does it all
Reviewed on 17/11/2021
My overall experience with Cloudflare has been amazing. While their support can be frustrating at...
My overall experience with Cloudflare has been amazing. While their support can be frustrating at times with making you go around in circles understanding the issue, in the end, they get things solved, and will often pass you up the chain to their Tier 2 support to have a personal connection to try and get things sorted.
Pros
When we first used Cloudflare as our CDN, we discovered brilliance. Finally a CDN for everyone, with a freemium model to get your services round the globe at a fraction of the cost of everyone else. Be careful though, once you're in this freemium model, you're soon diving deep into all of their features where you're MORE than happy to hand over the money. From Network and Device security in Cloudflare for Teams to WAFs, easy to use page rules, Tunnelling, and optimisations for delivery across the network, you're soon using it all and using it all without the need for large IT teams to get it set up.
Cons
A few downsides, which are all related, is somethings things aren't quite working and you're not sure why. It seems the features of the system grew massively and more quickly than they were expecting and their UI and UX didn't keep up. Once you get on the chat and they explain what's going on, it's easy to fix, however for the moment, it can be confusing to try and figure it out yourself.
Reasons for Switching to Cloudflare
We chose Cloudflare purely on price, and we've not really looked back- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Cloudflare...has lost its luster
Reviewed on 12/6/2023
Cloudflare has evolved from a simple tool to guarantee 24/7 availability and quick response time....
Cloudflare has evolved from a simple tool to guarantee 24/7 availability and quick response time. When I compared it to QUIC.cloud and LiteSpeed, I found it did not perform as well.
Pros
Cloudflare provides a number of features that are important/essential for small business websites (DNS management, caching, SSL, etc.)
Cons
Overly complex and increasingly expensive without achieving optimal performance and 24/7 guarantees.
- Industry: Supermarkets
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Cloudflare - a must use
Reviewed on 24/7/2024
Cloudflare is easy to setup and use, to add a new website is needed just to change the nameservers...
Cloudflare is easy to setup and use, to add a new website is needed just to change the nameservers as all the DNSs are automatically imported.
Pros
Cloudflare offers a powerful content delivery network and optimizations that really speed up your website and reduce the hosting costs. The firewall is another important feature to secure your website at a low cost.
Cons
The gap between free and paid plans is high.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
An excellent CDN provider with a freemium model
Reviewed on 1/5/2021
All in alll a very solid experience. It has been ages that I have even considered searching for an...
All in alll a very solid experience. It has been ages that I have even considered searching for an alternative because I never had to.
Pros
I am an absolute fan of Cloudflare because of a few reasons. They offer so much in their freemium plan that it seems too good to be true and to me honestly that has been their best selling point. Love their service and their network. The setup for the CDN is pretty simple. The onboarding process and adding the website are pretty simple and intuitive. They have only improved their service over the past couple of years.They have direct integrations with third-party providers like cPanel so at times adding a website is just as simple as a single click which is awesome.
Cons
Their support has not been the fastest in terms of turnaround times but due to covid and all, I think we can definitely cut them some slack in that department.
Reasons for Choosing Cloudflare
Pricing and existing third-party integrations available with Cloudflare were a major reason for the switch.Cloudflare FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Cloudflare.Q. What type of pricing plans does Cloudflare offer?
Cloudflare offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$20.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Cloudflare does not charge on the basis of bandwidth usage, instead charges on features. Free Plan offers basic performance and security alongside free SSL and analytics. Pro Plan at $20/month provides advanced performance and security tools including image optimization and a Web Application Firewall. Business Plan at $200/month includes advanced DDOS Attack protection, dynamic content compression, custom WAF rules, prioritized support and custom SSL certificates. Enterprise Plans are bespoke to customer requirements with set-up consultation, a dedicated solution Engineer, phone support and multi-user access.
Q. Who are the typical users of Cloudflare?
Cloudflare has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Cloudflare support?
Cloudflare supports the following languages:
Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Q. Does Cloudflare support mobile devices?
Cloudflare supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Cloudflare integrate with?
Cloudflare integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Commerce, Amazon EC2, AuthN, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Buddy, Chaossearch, Coralogix, Cordial, Crafter CMS, Crisp, Desktop.com, Drupal, Eclypsium, Feedly, Google Analytics 360, Groove.id, Hostinger, Huckabuy Cloud, Jira, Joomla, Landerlab, ProveSource, Rambox, Rippling, SatisMeter, Secureframe, Sender, Shopify, Site Search 360, SiteSpect, Userlike, Webflow, WordPress, Znode, tawk.to, vBulletin
Q. What level of support does Cloudflare offer?
Cloudflare offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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