Cloudflare

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.

Cloudflare is well-suited for e-commerce websites dealing with high traffic and transaction volumes. The CDN accelerates content delivery, ensuring fast and secure transactions. Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects against potential threats, while load balancing optimizes resource utilization during peak times. Large enterprises with a global user base can also benefit from Cloudflare's distributed network infrastructure. The global CDN minimizes latency, improving the user experience globally. DDoS protection and web application security features are crucial for safeguarding sensitive business data.

Cloudflare is well suited for addressing key issues in AI adoption at pace, highly scalable, and cost-efficient operations. Further in highly technology-competitive areas like IoT and secure communication protocols handling edge computing capability requirements. It is less appropriate for customers with a low digital presence and with no scalable architecture demand.

Content Delivery - I'd highly recommend Cloudflare for this particular use case. The cdn is superior to its competitors and has a great mesh of nodes scattered around the globe. While optimising a landing page for one of my previous employers, I was able to leverage Cloudflare CDNs to bring a 400% speed up for page load times.

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.

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.

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].

I think every small and big projects (if it has not very specific requirements that cannot be met by Cloudflare) should just start using it from the get-go for the aforementioned reasons

1. CDN & DDOS Application level
2. Low TCO/flat-pricing for Serverless Web servers and backends
3. Limited V8 engine, limited integration pool with other DBMS
4. Tech-stack Roadmap is not warranted for long-term

Since implementing Cloudflare, we've observed a 40% improvement in site loading times and a 30% reduction in bandwidth usage.The feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive, noting faster access and improved reliability.

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.

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.

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

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.

Cloudflare is a comprehensive solution that can be used to cover a range of resources from content delivery to advanced protections against web attacks. It also has the great advantage of serving various sizes of companies, with a free plan up to enterprise.

From our usage, the tunnels are well suited for many cases. We have three tunnels running so we can access three separate services on our servers, and they operate very well in our scenarios. Running media through tunnels is forbidden, and rightly so, this is not really a good scenario for tunnels.

We are still evaluating the product capabilities.

We are currently placing it as our solution of choice on the implementation of zero trust architecture for all our new business' applications.

Cloudflare is well suite for application side protection, such as anti DDoS, WAF, CDN, and identity aware Proxy for ZTNA.
even though CF has RBI offering in its SWG, it less appropriate for user internet access protection as it is missing IPS and NGFW functionality.

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.

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.

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.

SaaS that requires global availability

Use of the monitoring system to help with DNS resolution issues that our end users may be experiencing was pivotal in resolving access issues.