#1 most frequent
United States of America
46.5%2,919,972 installations of 6,284,776
What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare’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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Automatic Scalability
Scales infrastructure up and down as needed to handle incoming requests to prevent outages during a DDoS attack.
Category average: 10
Mitigation SLA
The speed at which the tool starts mitigating a DDoS attack.
Category average: 10
Security policy management
Flexibility to set specific rules and policies, ex; blacklisting and whitelisting specific IP addresses or Bots.
Category average: 10
Areas for Improvement
Bot detection
Distinguishing between bots and humans, potentially through device fingerprinting, CAPTCHA.
Category average: 10
Global threat intelligence
Uses threat intelligence data to block known attack patterns or malicious IPs.
Category average: 10
Real-time analytics and reporting
Provides up-to-date network performance reporting and dashboards, allowing organizations to monitor potential attacks in real-time.
Category average: 10
Who Buys & Uses Cloudflare
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.3%461,090 installations of 6,284,776
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.6%290,840 installations of 6,284,776
Pros
- Reliable and easy DNS management setup
- Robust website security and DDoS protection
- Significant cost reductions and high ROI
Cons
- User interface and navigation can be confusing
- Limited reporting and logging capabilities
- Complex use cases require higher technical expertise for onboarding
Cost effective and easy to deploy - Cloudflare SSE
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cloudflare is used in our company for SSE and ZTNA, our users experience the same protection no matter where they are located. They get access easily to internal resources without the need for a VPN.
Pros
- Easy to setup
- Reporting is great
- Local POP in New Zealand
- Breadth of products
Cons
- More extensive reporting
Return on Investment
- Enhanced protection for our websites
- Easy access to internal resources
- Streamline end users experience
Alternatives Considered
Netskope NextGen SWG and Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
Other Software Used
SentinelOne Singularity, Radware AppWall, Illumio Adaptive Security Platform
Cloudflare - the ultimate swiss knife for websites
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
- To improve website speed and performance, as it can serve traffic from the nearest locations to the user and reduce the wait time
- DNS services
- Protect against security threats such as DDoS attacks and malware
- Web application firewall (WAF) and SSL/TLS encryption to enhance the security and privacy of their website
Pros
- DNS - provides really simple way to import all the existing DNS entries and then manage it
- Security - protects against the bad actors, has WAF and pre-configured rules
- DDoS protection - makes sure that the website is protected from DDoS attacks
Cons
- DNS speed is not the fastest as compared to some of the other paid alternatives
- Interface can be sometimes confusing for a new user
- Some of the advanced features are locked in Pro plans
Return on Investment
- Reduced the downtimes
- Protected against security threats
- Saved time
Alternatives Considered
NS1
Other Software Used
NS1, Netlify Platform, Azure DNS
Partner and reseller
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am a partner manager for Cloudflare and I work at an IT consultancy and Systems Integration company group that takes care of working on our customer's systems.
We have been using and reccomending Cloudflare to our customers and have made proposals in the past for names such as [...], [...] Italy and others and we have also guided our customers to use the Cloudflare solutions managed by the vendors directly (shopify, salesforce commerce cloud).
The use case is mainly e-commerce solutions but we also have had security and DNS focused use cases
We have been using and reccomending Cloudflare to our customers and have made proposals in the past for names such as [...], [...] Italy and others and we have also guided our customers to use the Cloudflare solutions managed by the vendors directly (shopify, salesforce commerce cloud).
The use case is mainly e-commerce solutions but we also have had security and DNS focused use cases
Pros
- Bot Management
- Web Optimization
- DNS management
Cons
- Partner journey
- Partner Portal
- Enterprise quoting
Return on Investment
- Saved engineering time for us and our customers
- Fended off Bot and Scraping on our customer's website
Alternatives Considered
Akamai, 11:11 Solutions for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
Other Software Used
Akamai, 11:11 Solutions for AWS, Google Cloud CDN
As good as advertised
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it as our main public DNS host. We have several public facing services, hundreds of domains, and they all are hosted here.
Pros
- Fast
- Secure
- Trusted
Cons
- Clarity in pricing
- More control over the human check
Return on Investment
- Peace of mind
- Less errors
Alternatives Considered
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
Other Software Used
ConnectWise Automate, Microsoft Teams, Proxmox VE
Cloudflare secure and connects you anywhere
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cloudflare gives us peace of mind knowing that our application are protected by security products from Cloudflare that is prove by hundreds of organizations.
Pros
- Threat protection from Cloudflare is second to none because of the vast ecosystem Cloudflare is running. Cloudflare handles billions of internet traffic therefore you can rely on the intelligence it gathers.
Cons
- Probably they can deploy their solution to emerging markets so it's accessible to the countries.
Return on Investment
- ROI is knowing that the applications are secured and users are able to access the internet application without having to worry about threats and attack that could take cause cybersecurity incidents.
Alternatives Considered
GoDaddy
Other Software Used
AWS CloudTrail
