About Cloudflare
Cloudflare speeds up and accelerates your site by distributing your sites content around the world then delivering it using the fattest pipes and the best protocols. By using HTTP/2 with an SPDY fallback, Cloudflare can deliver content rapidly to your end users. Using 79 datacenters (and growing) around the world, Cloudflare can ensure your content is never too far away from your end user. Through Railgun, Cloudflare can eliminate costly delays caused by the speed of light when distributing dynamic content.
Cloudflare has consistently set records for mitigating the largest DDOS attacks. Cloudflare can protect your website from content scraping through reputation checks and application level attacks through a Web Application Firewall (e.g. for SQL Injection and XSS attacks). When Cloudflare successfully defended Spamhaus, Akamai's chief architect stated it was "the largest publicly announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet."
Cloudflare operates one of the fastest and most secure DNS networks in the world with advanced functionality including CNAME Flattening and Instant DNS Updates.
Pricing starting from:
US$20,00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Cloudflare
Cloudflare protects web traffic transmitted over WebSockets or HTTP, while also offering a DNS hosting service. Cloudflare can mitigate attacks to web applications through protecting your web hosting by routing requests through Cloudflare. Additionally, Cloudflare's extensive network, which spans across 100 cities in 49 countries, means that content can be cached and accelerated at high speed to your end user regardless of server location. By distributing this content over the latest web protocols such as HTTP/2 and SPDY, Cloudflare ensures that web applications are loading and operating at the fastest speeds possible. Cloudflare also offers Content and Image Optimization to enhance speeds across all web properties.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$20,00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Total features of Cloudflare: 27
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best CDN ever
Reviewed on 2022/08/15
The best CDN ever, really. I have nothing else to say.
The best CDN ever, really. I have nothing else to say.
Pros
I can only say positive things about Cloudflare: it is fast, very easy to set up, never gives problems, it helps you even when the site temporarily goes out of service, you do not need assistance because you already know that you will not have big problems. All this is free (unless you need some specific options that you will pay dearly)
Cons
I would have only two details to say:
When you add the site in Cloudflare, he goes to scan all the possible subdomains and, if he receives the famous answer 200 (so that the page, and consequently the subdomain, exists) he will automatically add it. What does it mean? Some hosting always give a positive answer, even if the subdomain doesn't exist. In this case CF will create hundreds of non-existent DNS records to be deleted one by one (because it does not provide for bulk deletion)
Second thing is that unfortunately it does not plan to have dedicated IPs, even in the high paying plans.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Highly Recommended for Website Speed Optimization and Security
Reviewed on 2022/10/21
Cloudflare has helped us to optimize and secure a lot of websites for both our clients and personal...
Cloudflare has helped us to optimize and secure a lot of websites for both our clients and personal businesses. The experience so far has been great.
Pros
Cloudflare has a lot of features that can help optimize any website speed and performance, it also offers free security tools to protect website from popular cyber attacks.Some of the features I use frequently on cloudflare includes, the free SSL certificate to encrypt data from the host to cloudflare network and to the browser of the user.The content delivery network feature, web caching, Speed tools and protection services against hackers. Above all, most of these features on cloudflare are free to use, no charges at all, and they are very easy to setup. The extra features that are not free are also very affordable.
Cons
I have no complains since I have been using their service. It is really a great tool.
Switched From
JetpackReasons for Switching to Cloudflare
Cloudflare is easier to use and it comes with a lot of features for free.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
It used to be a lot better
Reviewed on 2019/10/30
It served me well for a very long period, but it never mitigated any of my DDoS attacks. It did...
It served me well for a very long period, but it never mitigated any of my DDoS attacks. It did helped me when managing DNS was a pain in the ass.
BUt eventually I found out that it was slowing my website. Since I moved away from it and got separate services to do what CF used to (DNS, protection, analytics), I got way better services and faster sites.
Pros
It sure makes managing your sites's DNS and main configurations handy by centralizing them. It offers nice redirection features and a whole bunch of features like apps and protection, cdn, etc.
Cons
But the service has been packing so many features that though it looks like advantage when it's not.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The greatest thing on the internet
Reviewed on 2023/01/09
Pros
I use Cloudflare on every single one of my sites. It is usually the first thing I set up as I also use it for my DNS records. Not only does it improve the security and speed of your site, but the mail routing feature is also a very welcome addition that I have just recently started using. Another great thing is their Zaraz feature, which can reduce the number of requests to your site.
Cons
I think the menu system could be a little simpler, but once you use it for a little bit, you get used to the amount of features.
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 1 001–5 000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great AIO solution to secure all your web resources
Reviewed on 2022/03/31
When I came to the company, no one was engaged in the organization of security for web resources....
When I came to the company, no one was engaged in the organization of security for web resources. Almost immediately I chose Cloudflare, set up this service, and since then I follow the analytics and turn on new features. We are satisfied with everything and we plan to stay further with Cloudflare.
Pros
I like the fact that the service is constantly being improved and adds new features, which allows you to abandon other services and use everything to ensure security in one place. Most of all I want to allocate 2 features - it is a CDN and protection against DDOS. It works just great.
Cons
Some settings are not in the obvious places for them, you have to google and read the documentation to reach them.
Reasons for Switching to Cloudflare
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Below are some frequently asked questions for Cloudflare.Q. What type of pricing plans does Cloudflare offer?
Cloudflare offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$20,00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Cloudflare does not charge on the basis of bandwidth usage, instead charges on features. Free Plan offers basic performance and security alongside free SSL and analytics. Pro Plan at $20/month provides advanced performance and security tools including image optimization and a Web Application Firewall. Business Plan at $200/month includes advanced DDOS Attack protection, dynamic content compression, custom WAF rules, prioritized support and custom SSL certificates. Enterprise Plans are bespoke to customer requirements with set-up consultation, a dedicated solution Engineer, phone support and multi-user access.
Q. Who are the typical users of Cloudflare?
Cloudflare has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000
Q. What languages does Cloudflare support?
Cloudflare supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Cloudflare support mobile devices?
Cloudflare supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Cloudflare integrate with?
Cloudflare integrates with the following applications:
AddThis, Adobe Commerce, Amazon EC2, AuthN, Backblaze, Buddy, Chaossearch, Coralogix, Cordial, Crafter CMS, Crisp, Desktop.com, Drupal, Eclypsium, Feedly, Google Analytics 360, Groove.id, Hostinger, Huckabuy Cloud, Jira, Joomla, Landerlab, ProveSource, Rambox, Rippling, RiskIQ PassiveTotal, SatisMeter, Secureframe, Sender, Shopify, Site Search 360, SiteSpect, Sitecore, Userlike, Webflow, WordPress, Znode, tawk.to, vBulletin
Q. What level of support does Cloudflare offer?
Cloudflare offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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