Cloudflare

Score9 out of 10

556 Reviews and Ratings

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

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

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

Steve Smith

Regional Manager in Sales at Advantage (51-200 employees employees)

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

Verified User

Vice-President in Engineering (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<ul><li>To improve website speed and performance, as it can serve traffic from the nearest locations to the user and reduce the wait time

</li><li>DNS services</li><li>Protect against security threats such as DDoS attacks and malware</li><li>Web application firewall (WAF) and SSL/TLS encryption to enhance the security and privacy of their website</li></ul>

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

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It’s really good from a SEO point of view as you have more options for log file analysts with adding proxy’s as opposed to cms such as hubspot software.

Pros

Technical elements of SEO
Great visual dashboard
Great CS

Cons

It’s a bit infer in terms of visuals but do the job

Return on Investment

Hard to say ROi but has helped with security services

Alternatives Considered

HubSpot Content Hub

Other Software Used

AdmitHub, GoDaddy

Davide Mirtillo

Davide in Information Technology at actabase s.r.l. (11-50 employees employees)

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

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

Kristofer Masker View profile

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CemenTech (51-200 employees employees)

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

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What is Cloudflare?

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Automatic Scalability

Mitigation SLA

Security policy management

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Bot detection

Global threat intelligence

Real-time analytics and reporting

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