Item: Cloudflare
Rating: 10
Author: Michael Stein

Overall Satisfaction with CloudFlare

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CloudFlare security puts a 'virtual shield' around your website. In an era where the cloud is becoming the preferred way to deliver content, CloudFlare secures and improves the performance of your website as well. Their DDoS protection allows you to prevent attacks without changing hardware, software or website code.

Pros and Cons

Pros

DDoS Attacks
Prevents false positive loads
Compression and minification for improved request load time
IP reputation-based monitoring system

Cons

Serving cached resources directly from physical memory
Real-time visibility and control
Protection of non-web infrastructure services (FTP, SMTP, VoIP, etc.)

Return on Investment

Reduced developer load
Easy to implement
Cost-effective

Other Software Used

Liquid-Web, Shopify Plus, Magento

Likelihood to Recommend

CloudFlare is one of the very few CDN service providers that offer a robust, free CDN service for all its users. The best part about it is that you don’t need to pay a dime for it irrespective of how much traffic your site’s generating, which is a proposition that’s hard to beat.

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