A10 Thunder ADC vs Cloudflare

Likelihood to Recommend

I recommend it but would like to mention that the buyer should analyze their needs very well and perform exhaustive service tests prior to purchase.

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Professional in Information Technology

Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Excellent for managing server loads and site speed for our clients. Most would have to buy bigger hosting packages to handle their busy days, but CloudFlare picks up the traffic and reduces the burden on the server. Most clients can rely on smaller hosting accounts to keep their sites up.

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Darcy Knapp, MBA

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

SEO Web MechanicsMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Pros

It offers very good performance.
Really fast deployment.

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Professional in Information Technology

Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Security: Cloudflare keeps our website safe from DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic.
CDN: Cloudflare caches our website content, increasing our website's reliability and reducing server load. This saves on bandwidth costs from web servers.
Registrar: We can migrate domains to Cloudflare, though they don't currently allow the purchase of new domain names. The benefit of this is cheaper renewal fees and fewer systems involved in managing our domains.

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Manager in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Functionalities and features do not match our needs.
Other vendors offer very similar characteristics for lower prices.

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Professional in Information Technology

Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Multiple Users - It would be great to be able to have multiple users on one account.
Itemized Cache - Would love to see a list of files that have been cached by CloudFlare's CDN and when they will expire. Also nice to optionally remove one or more files from the cache.

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Joey Yax

Web Developer

Grady BrittonMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

A10 Thunder ADC 7.0

Based on 1 answer

Support said the devices will work in our environment but when we had the device working we realized that it was not possible to do what we wanted, for this reason, our experience was not entirely good and we did not like the way they approached us for the sale of the device.

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Professional in Information Technology

Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cloudflare 8.2

Based on 11 answers

We've been using a free plan, so we know that we aren't a priority on their list, but we had a severe issue in just one project, and they weren't able to help us with that.
We had to remove that website from Cloudflare and use another service since they couldn't help us, and they took a long time to respond to our inquiries.

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Carlos Eduardo de Souza

Co-founder & Manager

Coopers Digital ProductionInternet, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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Cloudflare and CloudFront are both great tools. I would recommend Cloudflare for sites that are not hosted on Amazon, and CloudFront for sites using Amazon Web Services. The pricing and features are comparable. Overall, Cloudflare's free tier offers more services, which gives it a slight edge over the competition.

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Manager in Information Technology

Think Tanks Company, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Allow routing instances in the device, this would increase the benefits much more and compete very well with other vendors.

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Professional in Information Technology

Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Our business has online presences to reassure our customers, not to gain new ones, so the actual ROI is smaller than for most other people.
CloudFlare is super easy to use so I can make adjustments on the fly.
Safety and security is important and I don't have to worry about a lot of things due to CloudFlare.

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Chris Widner

VP of Technology & Human Resources

Quality Ironworks, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

A10 Thunder ADC Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cloudflare Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	Free
Pro	$20²
Business	$200²
Enterprise	Contact sales team

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A10 Thunder ADC

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A10 Thunder ADC

Cloudflare

Pros

A10 Thunder ADC

Cloudflare

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Cloudflare

Support Rating

A10 Thunder ADC

Cloudflare

Alternatives Considered

A10 Thunder ADC

Cloudflare

Return on Investment

A10 Thunder ADC

Cloudflare

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

A10 Thunder ADC Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Cloudflare Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

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