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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.

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Works well for DNS record management

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 10, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cloudflare to only manage our DNS records. This includes DNS records related to email, websites, etc.
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Brandon Schmidt
Employee - Information Technology
Infrastructure Engineer
Crown College
Cloudflare2 years of experience

Great product with many useful features

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 9, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cloudflare is an invaluable product in our company which we recommend to all our clients when we onboard them unless they already use it. We make use of a variety of the serv...
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Verified user
Employee
Cloudflare10 years of experience

Great tool for all businesses both small and large

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 30, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Helps us cover attacks placed on externally exposed web apps. And provides metrics on malicious behavior that has taken place. If any of it was prevented, as well as the type ...
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Verified user
Engineer
Cloudflare4 years of experience

Cloudflare, the only cloud worth using.

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 17, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cloudflare for DNS, security, performance improvements, and load balancing for most of the web applications that our organization hosts for public use. It is the first ...
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Chris Saenz
Engineer - Information Technology
Lead System Engineer
Azusa Pacific University
Cloudflare7 years of experience
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Cloudflare Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 16, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The Global cloud services offered from Cloudflare are an enticing set of tools which offer a range of solutions that we may benefit from to improve our website performance, se...
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Pricing

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Pro

$20

Cloud
per month

Business

$200

Cloud
per month

Free

Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

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.

Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud empowers organizations to do the following:

  • Simplify secure access for employees, contractors, and developers across web, private, and multi cloud environments, while protecting against threats, securing cloud data, and simplifying operations.
  • Accelerate applications, secure APIs and infrastructures to deliver applications with the reliability, security and performance required by both end users, and the business.
  • Implement agile developer services to code and build new products with the resources needed for scale, performance, security and reliability.


Cloudflare use cases:
Securing websites & APIs, mitigating DDoS attacks, stopping malicious bot abuse, accelerating internet applications, securing corporate applications and web browsing, protecting against email attacks, and cloud-based networking.


For more information, Cloudflare offers the following resources:



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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’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.

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 From Top Reviewers

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Cloudflare is a must for organizations of any scale

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 05, 2021
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudflare
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our organisation is hosting customers' ERP systems in a private cloud and we use Cloudflare for security reasons, mainly for DDoS protection. Customers are connecting to their ERP system using web clients, so their connections should be secure. We partly use the DNS function of Cloudflare. Also, we use the caching functionality because pages load much faster when taken from the cache.
Pros
  • Caching.
  • DDoS protection.
Cons
  • More price plans, because there are only a few.
  • Need quite some technical knowledge to set it up.
  • Easy access to the log files.
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudflare is an excellent protector against DDoS attacks. Even for only 1 website, Cloudflare is already a good choice. But especially for enterprise organisations, I think Cloudflare is a must.

Simple to setup and very fast

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 21, 2021
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudflare
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are a software company, offering a SaaS. We use Cloudflare to manage our DNS, as CDN to our frontends and also as "firewall" and Web Application Firewall (WAF), against DDoS, SQL injection, bots and other common attacks. Every domain is proxied by Cloudflare to prevent direct access to our services.<br>
Pros
  • DNS management
  • Firewall and WAF
  • Anti DDoS
Cons
  • Integration with cloud services require technical knowledge.
  • Login require two step code every day. Could save sessions for a longer period.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would suggest Cloudflare if you need immediate protection against bots and similar attacks. It's very simple to setup. Also, if your cloud provider doesn't offer similar protections, you can configure it to block all traffic, besides from Cloudflare and be even safer.

Cloudflare Fast and Secure DNS Management on WordPress Sites

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 11, 2023
Verified User
Director in Marketing
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudflare
8 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cloudflare makes it easy for DNS Management for all of WordPress websites. With its intuitive user interface, we can quickly set up our domain name servers and configure settings in just a few clicks. We can also manage multiple domains from a single account, making it simpler than ever to keep track of all your websites. From a security standpoint, Cloudflare is unmatched. It uses advanced DDoS protection techniques to effectively prevent malicious attacks on our websites.
Pros
  • Dns Management
  • Content Delivery Network (CDN)
  • Speed Optimization
  • DDoS protection
  • Great Documentation and Knowledge Base
Cons
  • Integrated Analytics
  • Pricing Structure for Plans
  • Interface Customization
Likelihood to Recommend
We mainly use it for DNS management in Cloud Services such as Digital Ocean. We also benefit from malware attacks, high spikes in traffic and overall performance. On the other hand, Cloudflare may not be the most suitable solution for small websites with little traffic or those that don’t need many advanced features. The platform may be too complex to set up and use without significant technical knowledge or experience and there may be no real benefit to using it on simpler sites.

A must have for any website: period.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 01, 2021
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Chad Carman
Digital Media Director
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudflare
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our organization uses Cloudflare to protect our website and serve content much faster via the CDN services.
Pros
  • Content Delivery: high uptime.
  • Content Delivery: fast page loads.
  • Security: prevents attacks.
  • Supports nonprofits.
Cons
  • Need some technical knowledge to implement.
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudflare is literally a must-use for any organization and its website. Just the free version helps with minifying JS, CSS, and more to increase page loads speeds. I can't think of a reason that every website would NOT implement it.

Best in class! Try it out (it's free) and you adopt this tool.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 12, 2023
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cloudflare is the best tool you will find to handle your DNS. It is higly configurable and has all the features you would like to see. We used it to handle over 15 domains with ease.
Pros
  • security
  • Bot prevention
  • Analytics
  • WAF
Cons
  • Pricing scheme
  • Multi domain editing
  • Premade Apps
Likelihood to Recommend
For some smaller websites, this tool my not be needed or if your solution already handles the infraestructure then you woudnt be able to use it at all.
If you are able to use it, my recomendation is go to the website and sign in for the free solution, most likely you will end up loving it and adopting it.
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