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What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, provides DDoS and bot mitigation security for business domains, as well as a content delivery network (CDN) and web application firewall (WAF).

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Recent Reviews

Warp Disappointment

1 out of 10
April 08, 2024
We decided to use the Cloudflare Warp product to replace our Cisco VPN. It's been frustrating to say the least. The application is always …
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Flair

10 out of 10
February 28, 2024
Incentivized
In our organization, Cloudflare plays a pivotal role in addressing critical business challenges. Specifically, we employ Cloudflare's Web …
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Cloudflare!

8 out of 10
December 12, 2023
Incentivized
Cloudflare is one of the primary products that is used (and recommended) to our customers for Zero Trust based remote access. Through …
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$20

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Business

$200

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Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
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Product Details

What is Cloudflare?

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Call for Enterprise solutions: 1 (888) 993-5273 Try: https://www.cloudflare.com/a/sign-up Description https://www.cloudflare.com is a dedicated, intelligent network offering routing, caching, website firewall, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, WAN Optimization as a service. Us...
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Cloudflare Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Cloudflare, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, provides DDoS and bot mitigation security for business domains, as well as a content delivery network (CDN) and web application firewall (WAF).

Cloudbric are common alternatives for Cloudflare.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Cloudflare are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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April 08, 2024

Warp Disappointment

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We decided to use the Cloudflare Warp product to replace our Cisco VPN. It's been frustrating to say the least. The application is always breaking for users and the performance has been horrible. Cloudflare customer service has been useless. The solution was to purchase premium support for $4K a month to attempt to solve basic issues that should have been part of onboarding. Moving to Zscaler.
March 07, 2024

Cloudflare review

Alan Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Cloudflare to assist in mitigating a number of attacks my web server came under. In that respect, Cloudflare has made my life simpler. I also utilize Cloudflare's domain name registrar offerings which offer domain names at cost, which is hard to beat. Not sure what I would do without them at this point.
February 28, 2024

Flair

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our organization, Cloudflare plays a pivotal role in addressing critical business challenges. Specifically, we employ Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall (WAF) to enhance web application security. This solution effectively protects against cyber threats like DDoS attacks, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting. By customizing security rules and utilizing real-time threat intelligence, Cloudflare's WAF ensures a proactive defense for our web applications, aligning with our overarching goal of fortifying our online presence.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cloudflare Zero Trust to have control of our SaaS apps and to be able to control the devices with device posture. One of the few problems that I detect when carrying out an audit from external tools is that the IP that these services receive is from Cloudflare instead of the final equipment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cloudflare in multiple production and development environments. We mainly use it for DNS, CDN, WAF, workers, analitics, and more other services. It gives us peace of mind concerning online atacs like DDOS. I makes our site more performant, resilient for our customers. Since we use it we didn't found a better option in the market.
January 25, 2024

Good solid solution

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Security good solution our team call it God send solution as it easy to learn how to use it while it simple to use daily and it a good working solution as we use it daily we learn to love it, elegant but simple way to resolve problems we encounter on the daily basis
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare offers so much in their freemium plan that it seems too good to be true and to me honestly that has been their best selling point. Our customers absolutely amazed by how much it improves their website and how well it behaves once behind CDN and solid caching, just by using the free version.
December 12, 2023

Cloudflare!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Cloudflare is one of the primary products that is used (and recommended) to our customers for Zero Trust based remote access. Through their product called Cloudflare Access, customer are able to stand up application based tunnels for their end user connectivity requirements.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare helps me to make my websites and my Open-Source projects more secure and with no extra cost. It provide me a free SSL for each domain, and it protects me against bots that use my hosting bandwidth. With Cloudflare I have an overview of all my domains in one page. I can analyze daily the report of bad users and I can immediately take action on those IP address ranges. Also, I use the Cloudflare cache to speed up my website with the use of a Content delivery network.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I recently explored Cloudflare's capabilities and attended their webinar on "Simplifying AI: Building fast, private, and scalable AI apps in the cloud," and I must say, the experience was nothing short of impressive. The webinar provided valuable insights into the challenges of AI application development in the cloud, showcasing Cloudflare's clear understanding of the complexities involved. The emphasis on speed, privacy, and scalability resonated throughout the event, reflecting the platform's commitment to addressing key issues in artificial intelligence. Cloudflare's dedication to speed was a central theme, with a focus on performance optimization through its content delivery network (CDN). Techniques such as image and asset optimization highlighted the platform's commitment to delivering a seamless user experience for AI applications. The webinar commendably underscored Cloudflare's commitment to privacy and security. Detailed discussions on encryption, DDoS protection, and privacy-enhancing features demonstrated the platform's ability to safeguard sensitive AI data without compromising performance. One of the standout features discussed was Cloudflare's scalability solutions. The webinar explained how the platform's edge computing capabilities enable seamless scaling of AI applications. The integration of serverless computing and the ability to deploy code at the edge showcased Cloudflare's commitment to efficiently handling varying workloads. Developer-friendly features were also highlighted, including easy integration with popular AI frameworks and APIs. The demonstration of the user interface and API capabilities emphasized the ease with which developers can deploy and manage AI applications on the Cloudflare platform.I do not have a complete hands-on exploration of Cloudflare's capabilities to affirm further the strengths discussed in the webinar, but their global network reach, with data centers worldwide ensuring low-latency access, is a significant advantage for AI applications requiring real-time processing and Cloudflar's expertise would help in achieving this quickly. The comprehensive security measures, such as SSL/TLS encryption and Web Application Firewall (WAF), instilled confidence in the protection of AI applications from potential threats. Cloudflare's commitment to privacy and security aligns well with the growing concerns surrounding data protection. Smart routing and load balancing mechanisms contribute to optimal performance, a valuable feature for AI applications demanding high availability and responsiveness. The edge computing capabilities enable code execution at edge locations, reducing latency and enhancing overall performance, especially in scenarios requiring real-time decision-making. Finally, Cloudflare emerges as a powerful ally for developers and businesses venturing into AI applications. The platform's commitment to speed, privacy, and scalability positions it as a leading solution for the challenges associated with building fast, private, and scalable AI apps in the cloud. I highly recommend Cloudflare to organizations seeking a robust and developer-friendly platform for their AI endeavors.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are leveraging cloudflare to add a layer of security on our dev and preview environments. We also use it to securely access cloud based code repository directly via VSCode. We take security very seriously and Cloudflare helps us get that extra level of comfort and security on top of our vast infrastructure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you aren't using Cloudflare, you should be. Cloudflare is one of the few companies that seem to think of the solution before you even know it is a problem.
We use Cloudflare to manage our DNS, CDN our web traffic, be a WAP for our applications, manage our DMARC records, provide DDOS protection, and are looking into their Zero Trust network tunnels and we are just barely scratching the surface of their offerings. Their tools are always well thought out, the user interfaces intuitive, and the functionality just works. They are constantly advancing their offerings both existing and expanding in logical directions. Other IT providers should definitely be looking to model their business practices after a company like Cloudflare.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our organization, we leverage cloudflare to optimize the performance and fortify the security of our online strcuture. Like for example bots or injection. We also use CDN (Content delivery Network) to accelerates website loading times by caching content across its global network ensuring a seamless use experience. The robust DDos protection shields our POC servers from malicious attacks and preserving service continuly. We love the service that Cloud flare provide use. And we still using it to protect our POC's.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ease of use, affordability, security, performance: pick four.

Started using Cloudflare for web performance, security improvements, and DDoS protection. Have since used its incredibly flexible Workers platform [the web's ultimate Swiss Army knife], at-cost domain name registration, 1.1.1.1 and WARP, and am now implementing my first enterprise Magic-WAN and Zero Trust rollout.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love the Cloudflare products and use them for all my professional and personal domains and have recommended and implemented them time and time again for colleagues, friends and clients of mine over the past 8-10 years. The security that is included, the caching features and the vast amount of configurable options are great!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
1. Transform classic web servers, backend servers into Cloudflare Pages and Workers
2. Cloudflare CDN, DDOS Application solutions
3. PoC AI engines
4. PoC Serverless DB D1, R2, KV
5. Build JAMstack and serverless solutions to sell B2B, D2C products
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Since integrating Cloudflare for image optimization and storage, we've seen remarkable improvements in our website's performance. Cloudflare's resizing, compression, and automatic format conversion capabilities have significantly enhanced page load times while maintaining image quality. This has not only improved our user experience but also reduced our bandwidth and storage costs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Cloudflare mainly for two reasons, one of them is workers and the other one is pages.
After a short while of setting up those products we also leveraged everything they have to offer in domain management.
We have hundreds of IoT devices that are constantly querying our database.
In our previous setup we dealt with inconsistency, and the pricing for allowing so many connections to our servers was very high.
In the pages department, we needed a quick and easy way to sho static HTML website.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudflare is used in our organization to provide security by protecting Internet properties from malicious activity like DDoS attacks, malicious bots, and other nefarious intrusions. It also allows website owners to easily insert applications into their websites without needing to be a developer. Cloudflare saves CPU resources and bandwidth by serving the static content directly from global data centers. Mirage automatically optimizes image loading through virtualized and lazyloaded images. Cloudflare is also used as a CDN to cache and deliver our site's static resources quickly, for public DNS, SSL acceleration, WAF and DDoS/bot protection, and fast network routing. Cloudflare helps us stay fast, redundant, and protected. We also use Cloudflare logging for analytics.
November 06, 2023

Cloudflare True Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare used in our organization for providing security by protecting Internet properties from malicious activity like DDoS attacks, malicious bots, and other nefarious intrusions. It also allows website owners to easily insert applications into their websites without needing to be a developer. Cloudflare saves CPU resources and bandwidth by serving the static content directly from global data centers. Mirage automatically optimizes image loading through virtualized and lazyloaded images.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use multiple CloudFlare products in our organization.
Zerotrust: This helps us keep secure on the public network. As we are working remotely for the last 2 years, the Zerotrust solution provided by Zlousflare has been very useful in making sure the entire organization is in secure network.
We also use Cloudflare's WAF for our website and use their load balancer as well.
We are starting using their CDN as well in near future
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cloudflare as a CDN to cache and deliver our site's static resources quickly. We also use it for public DNS, SSL acceleration, WAF and DDoS/bot protection, and fast network routing. Cloudflare helps us stay fast, redundant, and protected. We also use Cloudflare logging for analytics.
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