Cloudflare vs OpenShift

Likelihood to Recommend

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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As with any solution, it depends on how and why you want to deploy it. OpenShift is excellent for medium to large deployments, but I would caution against smaller deployments unless you're planning on ramping up to a larger deployment in short order. It just doesn't make financial sense to deploy it in a small configuration.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

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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Pre built cartridges, giving a huge range of software ready to go. Reduces the amount of time required to get up and running.
Integration with GIT was an advantage, cloning the repo and making changes was straight forward.
Speed, creating an environment in minutes, ready to deploy.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 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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Joey Yax

Web Developer

Grady BrittonMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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I would like to see a public cloud using OpenShift and Docker integration. I am not aware if this is already available now.
I would like to see a tool that can help with extracting log files from the remote server like it being available on a Samba shared folder. And other applications that want to scan for keywords in the application log can check if there have been any errors or exceptions thrown by the application.

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Sonam Samdupkhangsar

Senior (Consultant) Software Engineer

Intermountain HealthcareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cloudflare 10.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

OpenShift 10.0

Based on 4 answers

Leverage OpenShift Online constantly at both the free and paid tiers. While AWS is convenient, it often brings more administration than I want to deal with for a quick application (i.e. Drupal or Wordpress blog). OpenShift also simplifies the DNS registration and ability to share application environments with team members

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Isaac Christoffersen

Architect, Infrastructure Services

VizuriInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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OpenShift 8.5

Based on 2 answers

It is easy to understand. Gives our team freedom to focus on the quality of our coding and not worry too much about build and deployment which honestly can be a headache for some of us. Also, customer support is fast and responsive so we don't have to wait for weeks for issues to get fixed.

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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 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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OpenShift 9.0

Based on 4 answers

First of all OpenShift Help Portal is a great place to get assistance in case of any OpenShift platform related technical questions. When it comes to paid support subscription friendly support agents can find the right answer for you in a matter of minutes which is super efficient way of solving any critical issues.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ 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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EC2 seems really cheap until you realize how many hours there are in a year, so it is expensive for something that runs 24/7. And scaling is a challenge (and even more expensive) to set up for.Bluehost has very reasonable prices, but it feels so cluttered whenever I login to cPanel. Thank goodness they have an SSH option also, but I remember having to send a picture ID or something and pay extra for the privilege

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Peter Ivie

Full Stack Developer

GeneSys FoundationInternet, 1-10 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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Chris Widner

VP of Technology & Human Resources

Quality Ironworks, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Cost - OpenShift is extremely inexpensive. I use a free account for Dev and QA. For production, I am planning on using a low cost paid subscription.
Time - You can get your application up and running in minutes so if you find that the service is not for you, you don't have much to lose.

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Keith D. Moore

Software Consultant/Architect

Viverae, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

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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

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Feature Rating Comparison

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Pros

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Cons

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Likelihood to Renew

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Usability

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Support Rating

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Return on Investment

Cloudflare

OpenShift

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Rating Summary

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