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A10 Thunder ADC vs Cloudflare

A10 Thunder ADC
5 Ratings
Cloudflare
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A10 Thunder ADC

5 Ratings
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Score 8.9 out of 100

Based on 5 reviews and ratings

Cloudflare

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Score 9.1 out of 100

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Attribute Ratings

  • Cloudflare is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

6.0

A10 Thunder ADC

60%
1 Rating
9.1

Cloudflare

91%
76 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

A10 Thunder ADC

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

Cloudflare

100%
1 Rating

Usability

A10 Thunder ADC

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Cloudflare

90%
1 Rating

Support Rating

7.0

A10 Thunder ADC

70%
2 Ratings
8.5

Cloudflare

85%
54 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

A10 Thunder ADC

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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cloudflare

I can't think of a single scenario where Cloudflare isn't useful. Our company uses Cloudflare for ALL sites. In fact, as a Web Development Agency, we don't work with clients unless they allow us to use Cloudflare. It's really that good ;-) and necessary for modern websites and apps.

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Jason Janes | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

A10 Thunder ADC

  • It offers very good performance.
  • Really fast deployment.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cloudflare

  • When you need a FREE and EASY TO SETUP SSL certificate on your page (if you don't have the locked locker icon when opening your page, you need it)
  • When you want to obfuscate your webpage's IP (any connection will give the Cloudflare's IP)
  • You need to speed up the connection for static content (it will not help database connections or dynamic content)
  • IF your DNS isn't good (Cloudflare's DNS is amazing, quick, easy, and works pretty well)

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Igor Neumann | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

A10 Thunder ADC

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

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cloudflare

  • There is a huge jump in price between the mid-tier and enterprise solutions which is hard to justify for smaller businesses, or companies owning many small businesses.
  • It is difficult to convert from a CNAME installation back to a DNS based one
  • Setting up page-level caching with web workers is counterintuitive for simple websites

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Nicholas Tantillo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

A10 Thunder ADC

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

Starting Price

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A10 Thunder ADC Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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Cloudflare

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0

Cloudflare Editions & Modules

Edition
FreeFree
Pro$202
Business$2002
EnterpriseContact sales team
  1. none
  2. per month
  3. none
Additional Pricing Details
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Usability

A10 Thunder ADC

No score
No answers yet
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Cloudflare

Cloudflare 9.0
Based on 1 answer
While there are some parts of the service that can be tricky to implement if you have a very custom site, like holepunching for cache, for the most part, the service works very well out of the box and is easy to use

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Support Rating

A10 Thunder ADC

A10 Thunder ADC 7.0
Based on 2 answers
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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Cloudflare

Cloudflare 8.5
Based on 54 answers
I (fortunately) have not encountered an issue I deemed severe enough to require me to submit a ticket to support. Most of the time, the problems I have encountered were fixable by simply waiting (as is usual with DNS services); or Googling and perusing their perfectly serviceable documentation and browsing support forums.

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Alternatives Considered

A10 Thunder ADC

No answers on this topic

Cloudflare

CloudFlare is always innovating fast and adding new interesting solutions to the CDN, DNS, and DDoS problems that keep appearing as the internet grows and matures. Due to network effects, using CloudFlare is easier, faster, and more reliable than the competitors, and their support is super fast. I have used other solutions in previous companies like Akamai but their APIs were not very easy to use and their interfaces were not that friendly, also their CDNs were not as fast to clear the cache.

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Daniel Anjos | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

A10 Thunder ADC

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

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cloudflare

  • Uptime: With Cloudflare's website protection, we have avoided panic-inducing outages and downtime.
  • Reduced hosting load: Cloudflare's CDN allows us to use smaller servers and greatly diminish bandwidth usage.
  • Reduced domain renewal cost: Most of our domains could be transferred to Cloudflare, where domain renewals are as cheap as possible.
  • Increased total website cost: All of Cloudflare's features aren't free, and they increase our monthly overall website cost. The protection and other features are helpful, just not free.

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