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Brian
Brian
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cloudflare is Invaluable!!

Reviewed on 13/06/2024

Cloudflare has been an invaluable tool to help reduce the attack profile of the websites I run.

Cloudflare has been an invaluable tool to help reduce the attack profile of the websites I run.

Pros

The fact that it hides the origin IP of websites, and allows page rules to direct traffic, even on the free plan.

Cons

No problems with Cloudflare at all, always use it for my and customer's domains.

Muhammad Suffian
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

An honest review by system engineer

Reviewed on 19/06/2024

Overall, Cloudflare delivers excellent security and performance enhancements, with its global CDN...

Overall, Cloudflare delivers excellent security and performance enhancements, with its global CDN and DDoS protection being standout features. While there are some challenges with configuration and caching, the user-friendly interface and robust support make it a strong choice for most users.

Pros

Cloudflare offers robust security features, improves website performance with its global CDN, provides reliable DDoS protection, and offers easy-to-use management tools.

Cons

Cons of Cloudflare include potential service disruptions during configuration, occasional issues with caching, limited customization for advanced users, and dependency on their infrastructure for security and performance.

Alternatives Considered

KeyCDN, Fastly and Amazon CloudFront

Reasons for Switching to Cloudflare

Cloudflare is chosen for its comprehensive free plan, global network, ease of use, advanced security features, and affordable pricing.
Sherry
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

WORST Every in the history of the cloud

Reviewed on 21/12/2023

I was working with Pureweb platform to create a website. Pureweb at the end surprised me with the...

I was working with Pureweb platform to create a website. Pureweb at the end surprised me with the fact I could not have a secure website and I must go to Clouf#$% to get the SLL going. Which I did and now my website is nonsexist, gone will not load.

No help from either party Purweb Platform and of course CloudF#R$ because you cannot contact CloudF.

Hours and hours gone!!!!!

Do not go near Cloudflare beware

Cons

There are no pros. They have no customer service number, no chat. I needed immediate help and the only number they have to call is sales which I called. The voice mail said if you are being attacked click 1. so I did that and guess what. If you are a client getting attacked, they don't care you go to voicemail. WORST EVERY. This company needs to be shut down!!

sachin
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Cloudflare: Exceptional Security and Performance with a Worthwhile Learning Curve

Reviewed on 16/08/2024

I've had nothing but great experiences with Cloudflare generally. The platform significantly...

I've had nothing but great experiences with Cloudflare generally. The platform significantly improves the dependability and security of my network by offering outstanding security, performance, and scalability. The extensive feature set and helpful support staff all up to a very positive user experience.

Pros

I enjoyed how simple it was to integrate Cloudflare with pre-existing infrastructure and how many security features it offered. Significant benefits include the platform's scalability and performance enhancements for apps and websites.

Cons

The initial learning curve could use some work because it might take some time to become proficient with all of Cloudflare's functions. For those who take the time to learn the platform, its depth does, in the end, offer strong capabilities.

Christopher
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Cloudflare is

Reviewed on 25/11/2023

We have used Cloudflare for our company and personal websites for over four years without many...

We have used Cloudflare for our company and personal websites for over four years without many issues. They have great features and if you are not tech savvy with the installation of SSL Certs or setting up rules this product can help you a lot. Their support can be a bit hit and miss but you usually get a response within 24 hours. We have seen some of the biggest and best brands in the world use Cloudflare and it’s really good how much you get for the price.

Pros

Our company uses Cloudflare for all of our websites. Cloudflare acts as a CDN, a firewall and also a performance layer for websites as well as protecting our websites from attacks. They respond to our needs quickly and it's relatively insexpensive

Cons

The customer support could be a bit better.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Cloudflare is a poor-mans' dream for Content Delivery Optimization

Reviewed on 22/07/2023

Very positive. If you're running a website or web services and you don't have the big bucks to...

Very positive. If you're running a website or web services and you don't have the big bucks to scale with Azure/AWS, then consider these guys. They very seldom let you down.

Pros

What's not to love about it? It has some of the cheapest and fastest content delivery tools on the planet. It has a free tier if you're just a cheapskate, but the paid tiers are pretty modestly priced among industry competitors. There are basic security filters in place and a few other optimizations for regional support (they have more data centers than most others with less latency). Their DNS/Name services resolve quickly and with fewer disconnects.

Cons

Support is kind of a chore, just because they have so many customers. I think it's something they're getting better at though.

Nathan
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good for all companies sizes!

Reviewed on 07/08/2023

Really good! Free tier is unbelievable good!

Really good! Free tier is unbelievable good!

Pros

Their free plan is unbelievable good, I didn’t need to pay for anything for almost 2 years and I just paid some features because was extra but all the essential is free

Cons

Nameservers need to be moved to Cloudflare

Nicolas
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  • Industry: Sports
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Secure Domain Registration & Management via CloudFlare

Reviewed on 24/05/2023

Overall, CloudFlare is a tools that is critical to the proper functioning at the company: managing...

Overall, CloudFlare is a tools that is critical to the proper functioning at the company: managing our DNS records, securing connection to our websites and generating analytics reports.

Pros

We've been using CloudFlare for more than 5 years and one of the recent features that I absolutely love is to be able to register and renew domain right within the CloudFlare dashboard. We no longer have to deal with the troubles of registering for domains at one location and managing the DNS / transferring to CloudFlare.

Cons

Customer support takes longer for clients in the lower paid tiers. I believe that a great company should provide support within a reasonable time-frame to all customer tiers.

Alternatives Considered

Google Analytics 360 and Google Cloud

Reasons for Switching to Cloudflare

The alternative considered were more as complimentary solutions, not to replace the CloudFlare option.
Marc
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Domain Hoster, DNS manager and CDN

Reviewed on 08/06/2023

Good documentation to get everything setup as you need it.

Good documentation to get everything setup as you need it.

Pros

I love the website speed improvement using a CDN. A lot of the features are free. That is pretty amazing.

Cons

Some of the features are pretty expensive.

Iddy
Iddy
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best Cloud Provider

Reviewed on 01/10/2024

Pros

It is very to use and deploy my resources to the cloud.

Cons

Due to internet connection I may find hard to connect to my cloud

Davide
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  • Industry: Legal Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Excellent tool with MANY different functions

Reviewed on 13/06/2024

Great set of tools from a reliable and world leading company, with a great community and a full...

Great set of tools from a reliable and world leading company, with a great community and a full range of documentation

Pros

Cloudflare is a bunch of different tools and services, always very easy to deploy and with good and in-depth documentation. The price is awesome for what it does. Many many tools are free with very generous caps. Couldn’t leave without once I got into it, it simply does too much and too well to be looking at alternatives.

Cons

My only complaint is really minor: there so many menus that it is easy to navigate, but sometimes I tend to get lost and the fact that they are re-organised often or new services are added, sometime it takes a while to remember where a certain switch or option was

Florian
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cloudflare as a front door for all external and internal services

Reviewed on 09/05/2024

In general, I am very impressed with Cloudflare.
All portals are easy to use and you can quickly...

In general, I am very impressed with Cloudflare.
All portals are easy to use and you can quickly find all the settings you need.
Furthermore, the help and documentation is very good!

Pros

I find the simple operation of Clouadflare to be an advantage!
It is very cool how the features work so well together. From the simple DNS to Zero Trust and the VPN tunnels.
GREAT!

Cons

I can not really say antything negative on this point at the moment, as nothing has happened yet.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Defense & Space
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The Gold Standard of Web Application Firewalls

Reviewed on 14/06/2024

Overall Cloudflare is great, it sets the industry standard in my opinion which is why it's so...

Overall Cloudflare is great, it sets the industry standard in my opinion which is why it's so popular and widely used.

Pros

Cloudflare is easy to setup and configure, has great user management and gives great analytical insight to what is happening in your environment.

Cons

Does require some good technical background around DNS configuration, if you are not comfortable with that then it may feel daunting. Also enterprise pricing isn't very transparent.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A best option for distrusting and protecting our sites

Reviewed on 19/10/2023

Pros

It has a friend UI that all my team can easily to work on. It has a great WAF, security level to protect our site against DDoS. Also, provide lots of rules for us to customize all things and fit with our websites like controlling how to cache and how request is handled.

Cons

It has its own DDoS technology that can detect attacks quickly without manual actions.

Alternatives Considered

CDN77
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Best web application and cloud security

Reviewed on 09/12/2023

Pros

It has the multiple features for securing your application

Cons

Nothing to like least about Cloudflare currently.

Nathan
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Peace of mind

Reviewed on 03/06/2024

Hugely positive and I've never used it to it's full potential.

Hugely positive and I've never used it to it's full potential.

Pros

I came across cloudflare around 10 years ago following a significant DDOS attack against our business website. Following the attack out hosting company refused to continue hosting our website and we were forced to move. Our new host was happy to have us and recommended cloudflare as an additional layer of protection and I've been using it every since.

Cons

When using their wordpress optimisation features, you never know whether they're conflict with another optimisation plugin.

Nathan
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Cloudflare - Online Security 24/7

Reviewed on 22/05/2023

The overall experience has been very positive. Protected, supported by a great service, with the...

The overall experience has been very positive. Protected, supported by a great service, with the options to alter and pivot in real time saves time and money. Cloudflare is a clear first choice.

Pros

From the protection of domains, customizable firewall and caching rules, DDoS protection, and the ability of their support teams to implement better and faster solutions, Cloudflare is in my opinion a top tier choice for any company wanting to better protect their online presence.

Cons

Some options in Cloudflare are defaulted to a lower standard then what is most secure currently.

Jazmine
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Cloudflare

Reviewed on 17/06/2024

Pros

I love that cloud flare keeps everything safe and helps ensure you wont get cyber attacked/hacked

Cons

The loading up process was the most difficult

Thomas
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  • Industry: Libraries
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Above and Beyond Cloud Security

Reviewed on 16/08/2023

I use this for my own businesses, as well as employer organization, and would recommend it to my IT...

I use this for my own businesses, as well as employer organization, and would recommend it to my IT friends and colleagues if they also didn't already use it.

Pros

I was blown away on initial use of Cloudflare and their free tier offerings, and has led me to consider further purchases of their services. Their DNS proxy service alone is invaluable, and I would be remiss to not use it.

Cons

I do wish pricing offered more granularity for smaller organizations, as it can be confusing which products are free until you attempt to set up a service offered.

ofwono
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  • Industry: Building Materials
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Clear Dashboard

Reviewed on 11/11/2023

Pros

Registration is fast and features are easy to use for even small websites

Cons

Support team takes long to respond to inquires and not in aproper way

Frank
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Makes website load faster

Reviewed on 11/11/2023

Pros

The tool is easy to use as it does not require any technical knowledge to set and deploy on the website

Cons

No issue with the software, it works fine for me

Mwiruguzu
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  • Industry: Broadcast Media
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

cloudflare gives enough security

Reviewed on 08/11/2023

Pros

The tool gives enough security to the websites and is easy to use

Cons

You need to be a developer to use the email inbox functionality

Manish Singh
Manish Singh
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Enhancing Website Security, Performance, and Reliability: A Positive Experience with Cloudflare

Reviewed on 19/02/2023

Cloudflare is well-regarded as a comprehensive solution for enhancing website security, performance,...

Cloudflare is well-regarded as a comprehensive solution for enhancing website security, performance, and reliability. Also, it's free SSL for beginner's websites.

Pros

Cloudflare offers a comprehensive suite of security services, including DDoS protection, web application firewall, bot management, SSL/TLS encryption, etc. These features help to protect websites and applications from a range of threats, including hacking attempts, malware, and phishing scams.Cloudflare's global network of data centres and content delivery network (CDN) can improve website and application performance by reducing latency and delivering content faster. Cloudflare's load balancing and caching features can also help to distribute traffic across multiple servers, improving overall performance and availability.Cloudflare's user interface is intuitive and user-friendly, making it easy for businesses to set up and manage their security, performance, and reliability services.

Cons

While Cloudflare offers a free tier with basic features, more advanced features and services are expensive. I am concerned about the amount of data Cloudflare collects about my websites, particularly if they handle sensitive or confidential information.

Sylvia
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Secures websites from malicious attacks

Reviewed on 19/05/2023

It gives us an additional extra on our website to be sure of the secure traffic and browsers

It gives us an additional extra on our website to be sure of the secure traffic and browsers

Pros

The software has a free version of it which secures websites from malicious attacks freely. I like the integrations they are so simple

Cons

You need to have some knowledge of DNS management before you can use the solution or before you can integrate well with the website hosting

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Favourite CDN and Security solution for my website

Reviewed on 28/02/2023

Pros

CDN is free to get started, and the enterprise-grade version of Cloudflare in the Cloudways hosting helps the website load faster than before.

Cons

Need more options to control in the enterprise-grade solution as Cloudways offer only a very few options for the users.