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Cloudflare: Fast and Secure with the Latest Technologies
March 29, 2023

Cloudflare: Fast and Secure with the Latest Technologies

Kunal Desai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudflare

Cloudflare DNS plays a crucial role in resolving my domain in the fastest possible time. Cloudflare CDN with tiered cache ensures that my site is available to visitors in the shortest time and as close to them as possible. The tiered cache also helps reduce the load on my server, making it more efficient. Cloudflare also offers a page caching solution for WordPress, which helps to reduce time-to-first-byte and increase cache hit ratios, further improving the performance of my website. Cloudflare's IP Firewall provides added security to my site by blocking certain types of attacks. Rate limiting further strengthens security by reducing the impact of layer 7 attacks. Cloudflare is at the forefront of introducing new technologies like HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and more to its customers as early as possible.
  • You can protect your domain from email spoofing and phishing by creating the required DNS records with few clicks.
  • Easy to setup and update DNS records.
  • Set security level for individual sites as well as for all sites.
  • 1-click image resizing.
  • Auto minify HTML, CSS and JavaScript with 1-click .
  • Create redirect rules to send visitors from old page to new one.
  • Modify request and response headers.
  • Easily setup page rules to cache your site.
  • Detailed guide with examples are required to setup new cache rules.
  • Cloudflare's CDN helps me save several gigabytes of data every month.
  • The tiered cache has significantly reduced the bandwidth consumption on my server.
  • Cloudflare's security features saves a significant amount of bandwidth wasted due to attacks.
Onboarding on Cloudflare is a straightforward process. Cloudflare has not only made my website faster and brought it closer to my visitors but also provides protection against bad actors.
In the early days, support from Cloudflare was good when they had fewer customers. However, now the support is provided in a tiered manner, and I am somewhat unsatisfied with it. I believe that Cloudflare can improve its support to better serve its customers.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cloudflare go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cloudflare again?

Yes

Cloudflare is well suited for: 1) High-traffic websites: Cloudflare's CDN reduces the latency and improving website speed by delivering content quickly to visitors from a geographically distributed network of servers close to them. 2) Websites prone to DDoS attacks: Cloudflare's IP Firewall, rate limiting, and other security features help prevent DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic from reaching the website. 3) E-commerce websites: Cloudflare's SSL/TLS encryption and web application firewall provide added security for online transactions, protecting sensitive data and ensuring customer trust. 4) Websites using WordPress: Cloudflare's WordPress-specific page caching solution helps improve website performance by reducing load times and increasing cache hit ratios. There are also scenarios where Cloudflare may be less appropriate, including: 1) Websites that need full control over their DNS and security configurations. With some features you get limited control in Cloudflare. 2) You may not get the exact level of customization or control.

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