Item: Cloudflare
Rating: 9
Author: Ricardo Acevedo Teran

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudflare

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 and Cons

Pros

security
Bot prevention
Analytics
WAF

Cons

Pricing scheme
Multi domain editing
Premade Apps

Return on Investment

Added security
Improved loading time
Stoped bots

Alternatives Considered

Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences), Fastly Edge Cloud Platform, Azure CDN and Google Cloud CDN

In my opinion it is the best one to manage and has a lot of resources written for you to be able to grasp any concept that you might need help in. It is a tool that you can handle alone if you have the basic knowledge.

Onboarding

It takes minutes. A little configuration here and there and you are done. The results take a while and after that you tweek at your own pace. In our case it was an evolving process which improved with time rather than a set and forget tool.

Support Rating

Never contacted support, altough the knowledge base is good.

Key Insights

Do you think Cloudflare delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cloudflare's feature set?

Yes

Did Cloudflare live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cloudflare go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cloudflare again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Shopify Plus, Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce), Google Cloud CDN

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