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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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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
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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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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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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).

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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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cloudflare Warp and Cloudflare Access/Zero trust for authentication into our internal services and private cloud.
  • Blog
  • Documentation
  • UI
  • Cloudflare Warp - the client is very frustrating to use; it breaks all the time and is difficult to debug
Cloudflare Zero Trust is a great product and was fairly easy to setup for our use case. The biggest complaint I have about Cloudflare is the Warp product - the VPN client breaks all the time and I need to spend a non-trivial amount of my day debugging it when it breaks.
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.
  • Fending off server attacks
  • Makes managing DNS records simple
  • Domain registrar services are simple and a great value
  • The renewal date on domain name registrations needs to be specific about the day in which it will automatically renew a domain and ding your bank account. I've had it put me in the negative when not watching the bank account too closely. As a result, I've had to just disable the auto renew feature on upcoming domains to avoid any surprises.
For a simple WordPress site, depending on where and how it is hosted, Cloudflare might be a bit overkill. You can say the same for someone who only has a domain or two they are looking to park, again, Cloudflare would be overkill in that area as well.
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.
  • Simplicity when adding a new user
  • Creation of rules and management of them
  • Show information with the logs it provides
  • Show final IP instead of warp IP for when you review logs on external systems
  • Clearer information for products like Magic WAN and Magic Transit
  • Be able to block the warp user from being able to exclude apps on mobile devices and block them from being able to change virtual network
Ease of use and easy implementation when you deploy users. Cloudflare also provides easy rule management to control both navigation and access.
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.
  • DNS
  • CDN
  • WAF
  • Analitics
  • The analitics for longer periods
For ecomerce or any kind of online business which is customer facing is well suited. I cannot think about any scenarios where will not work.
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.
  • Remote Access
  • Email Security
  • Web Security
  • Network Outage/Platform Outage Control
  • Dashboard Integration
Email, Web Security and Secure Network Access are the main areas where Cloudflare is well suited. The distributed technology that is behind the Cloudflare infrastructure allows it to be a disruptive product in the space.
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.
  • FREE SSL
  • Content delivery network
  • Bot blocker
  • Support better by livechat
  • Decrease Price for Pro
  • Make some Pro features available for the free users
It is easy to set up, and within 10 minutes it is up and running. You can add many domains in one dashboard. So no need for a separate Cloudflare account. I can access all my domain DNS, and customize/add it further. For example by adding the Google Webmaster DNS key or my email provider.
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.
  • Registrar and DNS services are impeccable, with registrations done at cost and without ADs. DNS services setting standards for speed of resolution.
  • DDOS protection. With their content distribution network to back them they have the bandwidth and tools to be both proactive and reactive to bad actors.
  • WAF - Their Web Application Firewall helps mitigate common site vulnerabilities and has active zero-day protection running for breaking exploits
  • Restricting SSO to enterprise accounts disadvantages smaller organizations using products like Google Workspace
Cloudflare scales from the smallest organizations (right down to personal domain use) to the largest (I believe IBM Cloud is white labeling their services). It is intuitive and evolves at a steady pace. I would say that their biggest drawback is that they provide so many different functions under one roof, but it is also designed to allow you to start small and expand as needs and time allows. I recommend looking into them to manage your domains and DNS records to start, and then expand from there.
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.
  • Handeling fast CDN
  • Protection of bots
  • Detail analytics and reporting
  • Easy to manage DNS management
  • Make support faster
  • Cheaper prices
Cloudflare is great robust set of service and is exceptionally well-suited for building proof of concepts (POCs) on the web. One key advantage is Cloudflare's global content delivery network (CDN) which ensure fast and reliable content delivery to users around the world.
The ease of setting up cloudflare services allows our developers to quickly deploy and test their POC without bogged down complex configuration.
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.
  • Products adapt to shifting needs of the web [and internet]; keep your biz safe.
  • Unparalleled security and internet engineering expertise; keep your bits safe.
  • Plurality of presence points nearer to end users; shift your bits fast
  • Newer features sometimes launch with scant documentation or support [c.f. recent workers AI]
  • Centralization is a worry
  • They could improve their marketing or product integration; they offer SO much it's sometimes hard to parse
I asked my current boss if he'd heard of Cloudflare on day one at my current role. We're now implementing Magic-WAN and Magic Firewall as a replacement to our MSP-managed Fortinet solution [keeping hardware in place, but massively upgrading our control plane with Cloudflare's easy, optimized interface].

Where is it well suited? Any place you need peace of mind as to security, assurances about performance, and where ease of use is appreciated [your CCIEs may not appreciate Cloudflare but your IT staff writ large will, as will users who get faster help].
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.
  • Accepting hundreds of requests per minute
  • Logging all requests
  • Manouvering the requests to different places according to specified rules
  • Documentation sometimes lacking, prepare to learn from forum posts and Discord
  • Mysterious bugs might appear, but they are usually known
Cloudflare excels in its pricing vs value, it's just beating every competitor, and they always add more tools, so they might enable business operations you never thought possible.
But if you are not willing to take the time and understand how it works to get the most value out of it - go for a pricier and easier solution.
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.
  • Cloudflare delivers 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 is also used for logging for analytics.
  • Cloudflare helps us stay fast, redundant, and protected..
  • 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.
  • 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.
It allows only genuine users to access the website so that the resources of your website are saved, and the speed of your website is improved. Cloudflare protects your website from DOS and DDoS attacks. Even if the website goes slow, Cloudflare will serve the cached files until the site comes back to normal. It is worth using CloudFlare only if the site has enough traffic or to protect the site from hackers. Since Cloudflare acts as a middleman, if it goes down, even your website will drop down.
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.
  • Cloudflare's security features can help to protect website from a variety of attacks, including DDoS attacks, bots, and hackers.
  • Cloudflare's proxy system can improve website's performance by caching content and reducing the load.
  • Cloudflare DNS service offers the fastest response time, unparalleled redundancy, and advanced security with built-in DDoS mitigation and DNSSEC.
  • 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.
Cloudflare offers several security features, such as DDoS protection, SSL encryption, and malware scanning, which can help protect websites from various online threats. It uses a network of data centers around the world to cache and serve website content, which can reduce page load times and improve overall website performance.
There are concerned about the level of access that Cloudflare has to our website data, as well as the potential for data breaches or other privacy violations.
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
  • Security
  • CDN
  • DNS Management
  • It's a little complex to setup and requires significant learning
  • Better docs
  • Cost
  • Third party tools integration
Protecting websites from big cyber-attacks and keeping web applications safe from online threats.
Speeding up websites with lots of pictures, videos, and scripts using their CDN solution.
Load balancing web traffic to prevent downtime using their load balancers
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.
  • DNS - easy to manage, simple to maintain
  • CDN - image and static content caching
  • DDoS protection
  • It's been challenging to understand how different products can be leveraged together to achieve a specific goal.
  • Their documentation is good at explaining *how* a particular feature works, but understanding *why* we might want/need to use it or in what circumstances it would be useful is often unclear.
  • It's occasionally hard to get useful support. Not always.
Cloudflare has a huge range of features. The CDN and DNS services are great, fast, easy-to-use, and reliable. The security features are broad and deep, and they work very well. However, it takes a bit of investment to understand your traffic and decide what tools and configurations will work for you. There are many features that would work well for a new project being built from scratch (Workers, Zero-trust security) but are harder to for already established sites to start using. Overall, Cloudflare's services are world-class.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are new to cloudflare and have been with within our cybersecurity teams to understand the product a bit more, mostly in the areas of domain management services. We manage our infrastructure on Azure and need to identify the solution that will work seamlessly. We are also looking into other capabilities within this product.
  • Domain managment
  • Network security
  • None at this time
We are still evaluating the product capabilities.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have recently implemented CF after moving away from Zscaler. Within our company it is used for firewalls as well as content filtering for all browser traffic when working from the office, or anywhere else in the world with an internet connection. This is currently rolled out to users in multiple countries using laptops, and we make use of the WARP client. It appears to run much smoother and no deterioration in bandwidth or speed has been noticed. The dashboards are straight forward and easy to use and navigate.
  • Content Filtering
  • Dashboards are easy to navigate
  • No drop in speed/bandwidth noticed
  • WARP client was easily distributed and configured
  • We are having issues with deployment in Dubai and the Middle-East
We've had cases where our company was under cyber attack and received phising emails which contained links to malicious and credential stealing websites, impersonating trusted pages, or hosting malicious files to be downloaded. These malicious links were all blocked 95% of the time due to various methods used by CF to detect malicious pages and/or content. We have had a few minor cases where legit pages were blocked, but this was mainly due to domain age, and pages/domains created specifically for joint ventures or projects.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cloudflare DNS to manage many sites with page rules for redirects, caching static content before it reaches our backend, Bot/DDoS mitigation, web analytics, and most recently as a proxy for our web app's API. Analytics are non-intrusive and tend not to be blocked by clients whereas Google Analytics are mostly blocked by our audience. We are exploring Pages and Workers for deploying a web app created in SvelteKit.
  • DNS is quick to set up and seems to propagate quicker than other DNS name servers. Page rules are very convenient for quickly setting up redirects with wildcards.
  • Setting up a proxy with Cloudflare Workers for my API, which runs on Google Cloud Functions was much simpler than any solution I came across using Google Cloud Platform itself. It also doesn't cost us a lot of money for this use case.
  • Web Analytics are privacy-focused, so it is nice to get insights into our application without worrying about the data being sold. The interface is very clean. I like being able to query page views by bot score, to see how many bots are viewing pages compared to actual users. Querying this data is also very quick and simple when compared to Google Analytics API.
  • I wish Analytics had a larger window to query for historical data. At the moment we have to store the data in our own database to retain historical records. I also wish the web UI had the ability to filter on "likely human" traffic, at the moment, I need to use the GraphQL API to include this filter.
  • I would like to see a performant way to do "rewrites" where traffic from another domain we operate is served up without changing the URL. To be fair, part of the problem with this is related to how the pages are served.
  • Managing users is a little awkward. You invite users to manage your account via email like the copy on the site says "Invite Members to join user@domain.com's account. Invite Members to access your account and edit configurations." which is confusing because it seems like people are using my email to log in. However, this is just the wording they chose, it does work as expected. Once you get passed that, the access controls are fine-grained and intuitive.
  • I wish I could set up a cache based on the body of the request, to use an ID within the payload as a key to cache each type of request.
Cloudflare is very fast and offers a lot of tools to manage your site traffic, caching, bot mitigation, web analytics, HTTPS certificates with auto-renewal, cloud workers for all sorts of purposes, a key-value store, image storage and optimization, pages for static content, a SQLite database is even on the way. Everything is offered at a great price too. Their free tier for services makes me reach for Cloudflare for every site I make public. I really can't think of much I wouldn't use it for, save for their Workers not being a true node.js environment and so you will still want to run functions with another service.
August 21, 2023

Happy with Cloudflare

Michael Bravo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare is a complex product offering, but for us it primarily addresses a whole bunch of security issues (WAF, DDoS protection, bot protection, endpoint protection etc) as well as web asset delivery (CDN) and the ability to knit together complicated systems, often with legacy components.
  • DNS
  • WAF
  • DDoS protection
  • CDN
  • HTTP traffic transmogrification on the fly
  • Their UI is notable for simplicity but has room for improvement indeed, both in UX and especially for cohesiveness across feature sets
  • It would be nice to have better linkage between some of the more complex things in the UI and the documentation
  • Documentation can always be improved
Cloudflare seems to be a no-brainer if you need DDoS protection and/or WAF. The rest depends on your needs, requirements and constraints. It is tempting to consolidate DNS, CDN and possibly domain registration functionality, if you feel confident it won't harm your risk/redundancy profile. If you have a heterogeneous or hybrid network architecture, they might be handy in knitting it all together. Their SASE and ZTNA solutions also look really promising, but these are complicated enough that a very thorough examination is required before considering application.
Nicholas Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cloudflare services to assist with monitoring and securing web traffic to key component systems to ensure our end user experience a fast connection without having to sacrifice security of our systems. Network traffic control and insights allow us to view possible threats and remediate them before they become an issue.
  • providing documentation on their products
  • easy interface designs
  • staff are very responsive and helpful
  • automated reporting of issues
Use of the monitoring system to help with DNS resolution issues that our end users may be experiencing was pivotal in resolving access issues.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare is a great platform for our organisation for security purposes like Zero trust services Cloudflare warp to enable security to avoid IP whitelisting in AWS cloud, also manage domains and name servers and manage saas apps and self hosted application using Cloudflare Zero trust network, we are using Cloudflare pages to host application without managing underlying infrastructure, it is very good serverless platform for developers as well as to organisation, also we are using Cloudflare Zero trust to block some malicious website for our teams groups to avoid phishing and malware, Cloudflare also provides analytics for our domains like how many hits occurred during this month and it has very good content delivery networks (CDN) as they have many data centres across the world, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is the technology that makes it possible to implement a Zero Trust security model. Zero Trust is an IT security model that assumes threats are present both inside and outside a network. Consequently, Zero Trust requires strict verification for every user and every device before authorizing them to access internal resources, and finally I want to say that most of the services of Cloudflare are free and very easy learn.
  • Cloudflare Zero trust
  • Cloudflare warp
  • Content delivery networks
  • Cloudflare pages
  • User management in Zero trust
  • Build area of Cloudflare pages
  • Domain blocking in Zero trust
  • Access group in Zero trust
Cloudflare is well in Zero trust network tunnel setup for setting up secure network and also have easy steps for setup like warp setup and tunnel setup on various operating system. And there are some tedious task as well like blocking some malicious website for Zero trust user but it doesn't work for all sites and there is some lack of features like user group management in Zero trust so that all pros and cons about Cloudflare I ever faced



Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare DNS plays a crucial role in resolving my domain in the fastest possible time. Cloudflare CDN with tiered cache ensures that my site is available to visitors in the shortest time and as close to them as possible. The tiered cache also helps reduce the load on my server, making it more efficient. Cloudflare also offers a page caching solution for WordPress, which helps to reduce time-to-first-byte and increase cache hit ratios, further improving the performance of my website. Cloudflare's IP Firewall provides added security to my site by blocking certain types of attacks. Rate limiting further strengthens security by reducing the impact of layer 7 attacks. Cloudflare is at the forefront of introducing new technologies like HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and more to its customers as early as possible.
  • You can protect your domain from email spoofing and phishing by creating the required DNS records with few clicks.
  • Easy to setup and update DNS records.
  • Set security level for individual sites as well as for all sites.
  • 1-click image resizing.
  • Auto minify HTML, CSS and JavaScript with 1-click .
  • Create redirect rules to send visitors from old page to new one.
  • Modify request and response headers.
  • Easily setup page rules to cache your site.
  • Detailed guide with examples are required to setup new cache rules.
Cloudflare is well suited for: 1) High-traffic websites: Cloudflare's CDN reduces the latency and improving website speed by delivering content quickly to visitors from a geographically distributed network of servers close to them. 2) Websites prone to DDoS attacks: Cloudflare's IP Firewall, rate limiting, and other security features help prevent DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic from reaching the website. 3) E-commerce websites: Cloudflare's SSL/TLS encryption and web application firewall provide added security for online transactions, protecting sensitive data and ensuring customer trust. 4) Websites using WordPress: Cloudflare's WordPress-specific page caching solution helps improve website performance by reducing load times and increasing cache hit ratios. There are also scenarios where Cloudflare may be less appropriate, including: 1) Websites that need full control over their DNS and security configurations. With some features you get limited control in Cloudflare. 2) You may not get the exact level of customization or control.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare is a great solution to be able to have a good website speed all over the world. It also protects my websites from cyberattacks. I have been using it for years for these main purposes. It's a more and more concerning issue, so it is good to have this kind of affordable solution to protect websites and also make it load faster.
  • Very clear user interface
  • Good performances
  • Good security
  • Make the interface easier to go around
  • Account management could be smoother for multi sites
  • Analytics could be more complex
Awesome solution to make websites faster and protected. It has been smooth since day 1. Easy to setup and with great uptime rates. It has been my go to CDN solution for many years. I have tried others but always come back to Cloudflare. If you are looking for a simple and affordable solution, this is the one to go for.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WAF, Allow lists, Bot management
  • Excellent UI
  • Great reputation in the industry
  • Security first posture
  • Some of the naming conventions for the levels of bot protection can be misleading
  • Demonstrations and webinars are slideshow and powerpoint discussions instead of live demos
We particularly enjoy the peace of mind that Cloudflare offers when using their recommended levels of protection. The managed challenge levels offer a customizable scale that is easy to tune. While we move to a Zero trust model, it helps to work with a company that is on the cutting edge of this format.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Cloudflare on my websites to keep them secure.
  • improve website load times
  • Keep websites secure
  • Easy to use
  • Great Service
  • Incompatible with express.js
  • Each domain can only have one script.
It took roughly 7 seconds to load the PHP-based site. The site had been hosted on a shared server in Sydney while using CloudFlare. In our experience building the @TuffTruck website, we discovered that DigitalOcean was incredibly quick—so fast that Australian users experienced a 2-second speed boost despite the company's international location. We discovered that several WordPress plugins were significantly increasing the TTFB; disabling all plugins resulted in a 1.5-second reduction in the time it took WordPress to reply. Using an "on/off" method, we narrowed it down to two plugins by Ontraport (a customer relationship management tool used to fill out parts of the forms). We ditched it in favor of a custom WordPress plugin that only sends data to Ontraport when necessary. Now that we have a workable time for the first byte (TTFB), we can focus on reducing the total page load time. By activating Cloudflare's HTML/CSS/JS minifications and Rocket Loader, we could get our collection of test pages, including the homepage, to load [in full] in a little more than 2 seconds.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloudflare is an out of the box easy to plug in solution for a lot of problems companies faces. For instance it easily adds web protection to your websites and improve performance over web traffic and DNS. It is pretty easy to use for average users, but there are lots of cool configurations for advanced users. They offer an AMAZING free tier that enables smalls/startup companies to really take advantage and grow with them. If you need a security vendor for modern architecture you will probably find everything you need on Cloudflare on a engineering perspective.
I suggest trying out their ZTNA solution which is awesome and is something really interesting for modern companies with distributed workforces working remotely.
  • WAF
  • ZTNA
  • DNS
  • HTTPS Enforce
  • CDN
  • ZTNA
  • Terraform Integration
If you need a web application firewall you can use Cloudflare.
If you need fine tuned access control for your services when you have remote distributed workforce you can use ZTNA.
If you need to share local application with someone you can use cloudflared.
If you need DNS you can use Cloudflare.
If you need CDN you can use Cloudflare.
If you need DDOS protection you can use Cloudflare.
If you need to ensure traffic encryption for you website or your workforce you can use cloudflare.
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