Cloudflare Reviews

Reduces man-hours clearing server issues with overloaded sites.

Improves client relations, clients love that their sites are fast and stay up.

Free SSL for low budget clients is a great plus.

We have been completely protected from DDOS attacks.

We're able to publish websites much faster without spending more for that.

By joining all of our projects inside this service, it's easier to maintain and organize them.

Saves us $100+ yearly on SSL certificate issuance price.

Saves us $X00 per year in lieu of paying for a CDN.

Increases user happiness with the speed-boost provided by the CDN.

No need to worry about DDoS attacks.

Easy to configure content delivery network.

Page rules allow us to turn features of CloudFlare on and off for sections of our application.

Our business has online presences to reassure our customers, not to gain new ones, so the actual ROI is smaller than for most other people.

CloudFlare is super easy to use so I can make adjustments on the fly.

Safety and security is important and I don't have to worry about a lot of things due to CloudFlare.

ROI is positive.

Comparing CDN of other cloud provider, ROI was more than 30%.

And comparing SSL, We saved more than 30k per Year .

Positive: we are able to do most of our site monitoring with Cloudflare's free tier.

Positive: Cloudflare's SSL saves us over $100 yearly.

Kept us from being hacked while running outdated software.

Wasted a lot of time enabling and re-enabling special rules for Admins to use all features of our site.

It has helped make our website faster, which has helped bring more customers

It makes it easy to manage the huge amount of domains we have.

They are taking care of the SSL certificates

It improves speed.

It constantly changes and improves with new features that never have bugs.

Uptime: With Cloudflare's website protection, we have avoided panic-inducing outages and downtime.

Reduced hosting load: Cloudflare's CDN allows us to use smaller servers and greatly diminish bandwidth usage.

Reduced domain renewal cost: Most of our domains could be transferred to Cloudflare, where domain renewals are as cheap as possible.

Increased total website cost: All of Cloudflare's features aren't free, and they increase our monthly overall website cost. The protection and other features are helpful, just not free.

WAF today is a must when you publish services online. The chances of breach or DOS is very high without such a solution.

With CloudFlare, you can purchase and manage SSL certificates. Eventually, it will cost less than purchasing them via dedicated services.

With the permissions delegation, you can let other people manage their specific domains, saving time for the Administrator.

CloudFlare has significantly reduced network downtime. We implemented CloudFlare about 12 months prior to writing this review and I can't remember an episode of downtime since implementing. Previously, we had frequent episodes of network latency, probably due to traffic spikes, and downtime from server outages.

CloudFlare has also helped with cache flushing after updating our e-commerce website, but that's just a small thing.

When you have an ecommerce site, being able to have it live is like the lifeline of your company. A slow website makes less money, a website that is down makes no money. Previous to CloudFlare, our website would sometimes grind to a halt or go down, losing us several thousands a day. This is a thing of the past now and we are very happy that we adopted their services.

The speed features on their service are also a nice feature as well as firewalls for specific countries.

CloudFlare provides great information about your website and traffic.

DNS management, very quick to propagate new and updated DNS items.

Website caching, free feature that provides your site to visitors even when it's offline.

Even on the free tier, Cloudflare's CDN usage can drive down overall bandwidth usage

Cloudflare's free DDoS protection ensures that traffic spikes are legitimate, and will block malicious users from reaching the origin server

CloudFlare is an extra fast and reliable service. It keeps my business up which in turn keeps orders rolling in.

CloudFlare hides my IP addresses and has helped reduce DDoS attacks against our company.

Reduced developer load

Easy to implement

Cost-effective

They provide us a free SSL, thus saving our time and cost to purchase and implement one.

CDN caching is a huge advantage for us as we're resource intensive site, bandwidth is our one of the major cost factor.

Hiding our IP behind their servers makes us feel secure.

Improved Performance improves conversions

Free SSL improves rankings and trust factor

Some lost time troubleshooting unclear situations

Improved Security - By keeping sites secure we've reduced the possibility of malicious users and bots on our sites.

Speed - A faster site makes for happier customers/users which in turn creates more sales.

Lower latency

Higher reliability

More trust (SSL lock icon)

The metrics are hard to judge. All I can really say here is that some of our customers request CloudFlare by name, and others need to be educated about its potential benefits. So while it does bring possible revenue, it does incur some expense in training new users on what it is, and how to use it (and when to not, when there are issues). Overall I would say the positives outweigh the negatives.

We needed a cheap DNS service with SSL, and CloudFlare has a very good free plan to start with.