Honest analysis of Cloudflare
April 15, 2025

Honest analysis of Cloudflare

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudflare

Today, my organization mainly uses Cloudflare's WAF, with the benefits of the Enterprise plan. We actually use almost the entire product portfolio, such as DNS, Pages, Workers, SSL and custom certificates, as well as Security and Rules. We also use the free plan domains for sites with few traffic or less relevance, but the features available in the free plan are exceptional and very helpful.

Hoje na minha organização utilizamos principalmente o WAF da Cloudflare, com os benefícios do plano Enterprise. Utilizamos na verdade quase todo o portfólio de produtos, como DNS, Pages, Workers, SSL e certificados personalizados, a parte de Security e Rules. Os domínios em plano free também são utilizados, para aqueles sites com poucos acessos ou menos relevantes, porém as funcionalidades disponibilizadas no plano free são excepcionais e ajudam muito.

Pros

  • Automated DDoS Protection
  • WAF
  • Workers
  • SSL
  • Pages
  • Rules
  • Proteção automatizada para DDoS

Cons

  • Rules Distribution, difficult to find where the rules are that were previously grouped in Pages Rules
  • Cloudflare Pages monitoring, issues regarding the number of deployments performed and other features that are limited by plan, do not have the metrics that should be included with the workers.
  • Logic of rules, sometimes they change, and a rule that previously worked with * or contains, no longer works. Or the logic AND, OR.
  • Distribuição das Rules, difícil encontrar onde estão as regras que antes eram no Pages Rules agrupadas
  • Monitoramento do Cloudflare Pages, questões de quantidade de deploys efetuados e outras funcionalidades que são limitadas por plano, não possuem as métricas que deveriam estar junto com o workers.
  • Lógica das regras, as vezes acontece de mudarem, e uma regra que antes funcionava com * ou contém, passa a não funcionar. Ou a lógica AND , OR.
  • Pages, saving an entire account, where static pages all went to Cloudflare.
  • WAF, discontinuation of other WAFs and centralization on Cloudflare
  • custom certificates
  • Pages, economia de uma conta inteira, onde páginas estáticas passaram todas para o Cloudflare.
  • WAF, descontinuaçãao de outros WAFs e centralização no Cloudflare
  • certificados personalizados
I was not present at the implementation of the tool in the organization, but I am currently the specialized user to deal with all problems and resolutions related to Cloudflare.

Não estive presente na implantação na ferramenta na organização, mas atualmente sou a usuária especializada para tratar de todos os problemas e resoluções referente a Cloudflare.
I have always been able to get help from support when I have faced a problem.

Sempre consegui auxilio do suporte quando enfrentei um problema.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Cloudflare again?

Yes

In my opinion, Cloudflare is completely appropriate, and in terms of security and performance, it is currently at the top. As for WAF, there are no comparisons. Some improvements that have been added in recent months have been sensational. The analytics, where you can check events for the entire account, are the only things that leave something to be desired. It is more confusing to keep looking for the option to create a rule that was previously at hand.

No meu ponto de vista a Cloudflare é totalmente apropriada, visando segurança e performance hoje ela está no topo. Questão de WAF sem comparações, algumas melhorias que foram adicionadas nos últimos meses foram sensacionais, o analytics onde é possível verificar eventos da conta inteira, só a divisão da Page Rules que deixou a desejar, é mais confuso ficar procurando onde está a opção para criar uma regra que antes estava na mão.

This review was originally written in Portuguese and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.

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