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    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    GoDaddy

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AGoDaddy Web Hosting provides users with storage, email addresses, and unlimited bandwith.

    $9.99

    per month

    Pricing
    CloudflareGoDaddy
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Basic
    as low as $6.99
    per month with an annual term
    Basic
    as low as $10.49
    per month with an annual term
    Premium
    as low as $13.49
    per month with an annual term
    Commerce
    as low as $14.99
    per month with an annual term
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    Pricing Offerings
    CloudflareGoDaddy
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discounts available for annual subscription.
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    Community Pulse
    CloudflareGoDaddy
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
    Chose Cloudflare
    A few years ago, GoDaddy started charging us to be their DNS provider, and Cloudflare didn't charge, so we moved to Cloudflare. Also, Cloudflare was known for security protection, for example DDOS protection, and we haven't had any issues since moving to Cloudflare.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    I just tried using their basic DNS, but it was surprisingly flaky. Sometimes pages just wouldn't load due to timeouts. Once I moved my name servers over that problem went away. Google Domains and GoDaddy just don't offer all the other things you would want to do with your …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    We like to use GoDaddy for hosting, but the smaller hosting accounts tend to crash with 1-2 users or 1-2 pages being worked in the back end of the site by 1 user. By using CloudFlare we can keep the site traffic off the server and manage our websites for clients with less down …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    I view GoDaddy and Oracle Dyn as two ends of the spectrum. In full disclosure I'm a former employee at Dyn. GoDaddy DNS comes free with our domains and is nice and basic. A bit harder to use than CloudFlare, though. Dyn is fantastic but more than we need for a basic site. Plus …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    I have not used another product that directly with CloudFlare. I have used GoDaddy extensively for website hosting and traffic reviewing. GoDaddy does a very good job as well, but their interface is not as user friendly as CloudFlare. While CloudFlare does not compete with Go…
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is no doubt more enterprise focused compared to others solutions that I have used in the past.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is less expensive with better performance. What more coudl you ask for?

    DigitalOcean has been great but when comparing costs to features, Cloudflare is cheaper for object storage and better performing across their large network.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    • Simple and consistent UX across the product suite.
    • DNS + CDN layer complete with SSL is amazing
    • Security layer built in
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    We're working with CloudFlare for the balance of simplicity of configuration, cost and robustness. Our experiences of other software have been far too fiddly with pages of buried controls, far too simplistic, or full of scaling costs that make them prohibitive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    The other solutions had aspects of what we were looking for, but either they didn't match all of the requirements we were trying to meet, or they just approached the problem in a way we didn't like. We really wanted a serverless cloud-first solution that could connect from …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    CloudFlare has a simple and easy dashboard, any newbie can get started with it.
    Incentivized
    GoDaddy
    Chose GoDaddy
    With GoDaddy: I can always expect that their support will be helpful and positive.
    • That I can reach operators by phone or chat
    • That I can find my domains and host in one place.
    • That I can also purchase and access email for myself and my team.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    76%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    165 Answers
    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    CloudflareGoDaddy
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Cloudflare and GoDaddy
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    GoDaddy
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic Scalability9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
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    CloudflareGoDaddy
    Small Businesses
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    WebWave
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    10Web
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    CloudflareGoDaddy
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    8.1
    (57 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (154 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    CloudflareGoDaddy
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
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    GoDaddy
    Good for transferring over an existing site. Truth be told, I haven't used it for building a brand new site-- I know that this is a fairly common thing but I just never needed it. For what I've used it for, it has worked well. For a small business with anyone with a little bit of technical skill, it's surprisingly good.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    GoDaddy
    • Registering a domain - I've found their site to be the easiest to navigate
    • Website builder - their website builder is user friendly
    • Email hosting - easy to set up and use, wether in an email app or online email.
    • Wordpress hosting - I have multiple wordpress sites I use under one account
    • Their customer service is always very helpful and easy to contact.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    • Support agents are woefully undertrained, even in knowledge of their own products.
    • Support agents will always try to upsell you, even when you're dealing with an urgent, high-impact issue.
    • There's no guarantee of uptime, and there will often be gaps in service as part of normal procedures.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    We can't really choose anyone else and the cost/effort of moving all of the hosted data would be extremely large, and we just have to stick to them, and hope they improve service
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    Some integration could be much cleaner and smoother. Seems it used to be easier. Plus, they took away the catch all email feature.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    I think a lot of companies can learn from GoDaddy's support team. I have found:
    • Chat or phone support is almost always available.
    • Their agents are friendly and helpful.
    • Their agents seem to care and be knowledgeable about a wide range of issues.
    • I rarely have to escalate my problem to get the support that I need.
    • If they can't help me, then they can tell me why something is happening and direct me to resources that can fix my problem.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    GoDaddy
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    We use Wix currently for our online store. It is nice and easy to use, but they don't offer the email domains as well (the last time we checked). They have pretty decent customization of the web page, but still limited. We're going to try it with GoDaddy, since we have other services from them already. It just doesn't make sense to pay two different companies for something we can do with one.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy
    • GoDaddy reduces our ROI by costing me in non-billable hours. I don't charge clients for sitting on the phone with tech support to power cycle the server or fix the php.ini file, so my $/hr takes a hit.
    • Their nickel&dime strategy requires I have an additional conversation with clients about their max recurring fees. Small as they are, I need approval for upping their bill. GoDaddy is only the cheap option if you don't value security, stability, or performance.
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