Cloudflare
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.
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.
Images
Not sure about Cloudflare?
Compare with a popular alternative
Starting Price
Pricing Options
Features
Integrations
Ease of Use
Value for Money
Customer Service
Alternatives
Constellix
Neustar UltraDNS
AWS CloudFormation
Google Cloud
Reviews
Already have Cloudflare?
Software buyers need your help! Product reviews help the rest of us make great decisions.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Cloudflare Review
Reviewed on 2024/05/02
My overall experience with Cloudflare is very good. Cloudflare really helps us on exposing and...
My overall experience with Cloudflare is very good. Cloudflare really helps us on exposing and securing our applications.
Pros
We are using Cloudflare as loadbalancer and CDN provider. The services that Cloudflare providing is very stable and secure.
Cons
The live customer support process can be enhanced. When the production system is impaired, we need someone to talk to immediately.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Solid platform for website performance and security
Reviewed on 2024/10/22
Cloudflare has been a reliable tool for boosting website performance and ensuring security. It has...
Cloudflare has been a reliable tool for boosting website performance and ensuring security. It has helped reduce page load times significantly, and the added protection from DDoS attacks gives peace of mind. However, there is a bit of a learning curve for new users.
Pros
Cloudflare provides excellent security features like DDoS protection and SSL certificates at an affordable price. The CDN is also fantastic for improving load times and reducing server strain, especially for high-traffic websites.
Cons
The dashboard could be more user-friendly for beginners, and sometimes there are too many advanced settings that can be confusing. Additionally, the free plan is limited when it comes to some of the more advanced features.
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Cloudflare - your defense against DDOS
Reviewed on 2024/06/10
I only can say that this is the easiest solution to prevent your site by geting down by DDOS...
I only can say that this is the easiest solution to prevent your site by geting down by DDOS atacks.
Pros
It works very automaticly, you dont have to be an expert to use it. But if you need so you awlays can define yur own rules for firewall.
Cons
My TFB was lowered by 0.5s its prety much, specialy if you want to have hight rank in google speed tests.
- Industry: Wholesale
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
superb security for your website!
Reviewed on 2024/06/14
great software to protect websites. very smooth using it.
great software to protect websites. very smooth using it.
Pros
cloudflare is super easy to use. some of the features are free so happy that I discover this software.
Cons
sometimes there is an error on their service and the pricing are confusing.
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Cloud security product
Reviewed on 2024/11/13
Cloudflare is giving great security support to the organization for any kind of suspicious...
Cloudflare is giving great security support to the organization for any kind of suspicious activities. Page loading and performance of the systems improved as well as it timely worked and acted on cache. Support team is very responsive and making changes and working on this is easy and quick
Pros
1. Amazing security features to protect from any malicious attack and configuring firewall.
2. Installation is easy , effective and can customize it according to our environment.
3. Helps in quick web page loading and cache clearing.
Cons
1. Costly product for small orgs.
2. Issues came with custom scripts. Many got blocked by the Cloudflare with cause an impact.
3. Sometime it cause high Cpu utilization.
Cloudflare FAQs
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: Not 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:
Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
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:
Adobe Commerce, Amazon EC2, AuthN, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, 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, SatisMeter, Secureframe, Sender, Shopify, Site Search 360, SiteSpect, 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
Related categories
See all software categories found for Cloudflare.
- Application Performance Management Tools
- Cloud Security Software
- DDoS Protection Software
- Network Security Software
- Load Balancing Tools
- Cybersecurity Software
- Video Management Software
- Machine Learning Software
- Website Optimisation Tools
- Encryption Software
- Computer Security Software
- Website Security Software
- Email Security Software
- Content Delivery Network (CDN) Software
