Cloudflare vs DigitalOcean | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 9.2 out of 10

Based on 79 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 68 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Cloudflare

DigitalOcean

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

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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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 501-1000 employees

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Ease of use - You can get set up with a new server in a matter of minutes. It doesn't get any easier than that.
Support - The public forums are incredibly helpful as are the official help articles. I've never needed to contact the support team because of this. All of the information is at my fingertips.
Pricing - We're only paying $10/mo for a solution that gives our customers more confidence in us and is a selling point for us.

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VP of Technology & Human Resources

Quality Ironworks, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Cons

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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Web Developer

Grady BrittonMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
There are no regions available on South America.
They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.

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Leonel Quinteros

Director of Technology

Global Brigades, Inc.Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cloudflare 10.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

DigitalOcean 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!

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Devops Engineer

Tommy BahamaComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Usability

No score

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DigitalOcean 8.5

Based on 6 answers

While DigitalOcean is a top notch host in our opinion, it could be more user friendly. There have been great strides taken in the last year with user friendliness, and while if you are experienced with web hosting, the services they offer will be easy to use, if you are not then it will require some research on your part.

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Brandon Mullins

CEO

Moon Books PublishingEntertainment, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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DigitalOcean 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.

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Front-end developer

Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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DigitalOcean 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.

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Front-end developer

Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

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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DigitalOcean 8.8

Based on 9 answers

They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.

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Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev

Madness LabsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Think Tanks Company, 11-50 employees

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Amazon has a very complex UI and many products to offer. They haven't polished up their UI and it has a much greater learning curve compared to DigitalOcean. However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does have more comprehensive cloud computing services, which forces some companies to migrate their backend and other services to AWS as they scale up.

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Co-Founder/CEO

aspace, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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DigitalOcean 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.

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Front-end developer

Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

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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VP of Technology & Human Resources

Quality Ironworks, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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With DigitalOcean, I've been able to move all my sites to https using my own implementations of SSL with LetsEncrypt.
Since moving my sites to DigitalOcean, my hosting plan costs less than 40% of what I paid for similar hosting from Site5.

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Jeanine Schoessler

Web Developer

satinflame designHigher Education, 1-10 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

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

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