Item: Cloudflare
Rating: 10
Author: Mixer Gutierrez

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudflare

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For the main use case, we use Cloudflare as our DNS manager and main proxy for the most important domains and subdomains.

For secondary cases we use it to build reverse proxies for some "embedded" apps and to handle specific use cases like sitemap generation, connecting to GEO monitors and others

Pros and Cons

Pros

DNS Management
DDoS prevention
Low latency implementations

Cons

Interacting with logs usually requires setting up an extraction, doing simple queries on them could be out-of-the-box
AI crawlers/bots monitoring can also use a better UX and allow for better drill downs
It could have better tutorials for things like storage and workers

Return on Investment

Has being a key factor to stop possible attacks or malicious requests
Has saved engineering time when mitigating attacks in a fast way
Has helped reducing engineering time needed to build custom apps without using a subdomain

Onboarding

Cloudflare initial implementation is really straightforward and usually can be done by mid engineers without a lot of knowledge in infrastructure (at least the one related to DNS management and basic DDoS and WAF configuration)

Probably for more specific use cases (like building reverse proxies) a more experimented engineer would be needed.

Support Rating

We haven't needed a lot of support coming from Cloudflare, probably because our main use case are their core products which are really stable. When we've needed support in the past a ticket inside the platform would work or for more specific use cases we would contact our dedicated representative.

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

Akamai CDN, Amazon CloudFront

Likelihood to Recommend

Being a proxy for APIs subdomains or main sites because it helps a lot preventing DDoS attacks or quickly banning/blocking potentially dangerous requests. It's a really helpful and quick tool to stop possible attacks

Using their workers product helps a lot when building quick prototypes of adding data to incoming requests or building small sites

Cloudflare Feature Ratings

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An essential for me