Great product with many useful features
January 09, 2025

Great product with many useful features

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

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudflare

Cloudflare is an invaluable product in our company which we recommend to all our clients when we onboard them unless they already use it.
We make use of a variety of the services it offers, but mostly depend on the DNS, WAF and CDN capabilities.
Cloudflare helps the devops team daily to analyze traffic incoming to the many sites we manage and host; to prevent DDOS attacks; to implement robust security mechanisms with the WAF and many other rules it provides; and to provide fast responses to the frontend site users through cached assets in the CDN.

Pros

  • DNS
  • WAF
  • Security
  • Performance
  • DDOS prevention
  • Traffic analysis
  • CDN
  • Traffic routing
  • Reduced many potential outages
  • Saved time debugging traffic reports
  • Prevented DDOS attacks
  • Saved costs from data going to our backend servers
  • Improved site speed
Cloudflare is on another level compared to any other CDN provider out there.
One of the reasons is that encompasses all the tools into one big products instead of relying on many different products from many companies - DNS, CDN, WAF are all managed in one place and connected well together.
There is no need to have to maintain yet another product as in the case of other CDNs.
Every onboarding we do with any new clients goes smoothly and all steps are clearly explained in the UI or in the documentation.
We can very quickly start to implement all the features needed to host our client websites.
Being able to integrate Cloudflare with Terraform also means we can quickly apply all the rules we have in place.
There have been very few times we had to contact support but each time the staff was friendly and we managed to successfully solve all questions.

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

Our devops team uses Cloudflare for many purposes to help manage our clients websites and products.
We make extensive use of the DNS product to manage a lot of our clients' DNS records.
The DDOS prevention mechanisms have stopped many attacks going to our high profile customers and we were able to add our own custom rules to prevent other issues caused by bots.
The CDN feature is caching successfully all the HTML and assets requests to our clients' websites and prevents majority of the requests from ever reaching the backend servers.

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