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.
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
One of the best website security and CDN service
Reviewed on 05/03/2022
Well it's along story, I found CloudFlare while I was searching for Free CDN service for website. I...
Well it's along story, I found CloudFlare while I was searching for Free CDN service for website. I was analyzing one of my website through GTMetrix and found one recommendation to use CDN. I knew that CDN is a costly service, atleast at costly as my monthly hosting service, so I searched for Free CDN service and luckily found CloudFlare.
I explored it on my own and slowly and gradually I got total command on CloudFlare. Now I integrate each of my website's website with CloudFlare in order to hide the nameservers + adding security and preventing from DDoS attacks hence enhancing loading speed and overall performance of my website.
Pros
Who doesn't love to have something as wonderful as CloudFlare for FREE? To be honest, I'm using CloudFlare since more than 3 years now and still using the free version because it covers all my CDN and website security needs. :)
The other thing that I cannot ignore or even miss is the Free SSL by cloudflare for 15 years, isn't it amazing? :) I know that there're other free SSL services available on internet also, but I totally trust on CloudFlare so I always use free SSL by CloudFlare. It's really easy to install and has multiple options for the encryption like flexible, full and full restrict.
And at last but not least, how can I forget or ignore the Speed Optimization features of CloudFlare :) The auto minify feature for JavaScript, CSS and HTML can be switched on or off independently so that you can never break your website. And the options like Brotli, Optimized Delivery and Rocket Loader is like cherry on top of the cake. :)
Cons
Well, nothing. I'm truly satisfied with the results, so there's nothing that I can say that I like least about CloudFlare.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
secure content delivery network for website
Reviewed on 06/11/2021
My overall experience with Cloudflare is excellent. Have been using Cloudflare for about 4+ years...
My overall experience with Cloudflare is excellent. Have been using Cloudflare for about 4+ years now.
Pros
Offers many types of security and components that can be added to a current site without adjusting code
It's great that you can get to a portion of their provisions for nothing and secure your site. Their standard criticism to my email is additionally exceptionally informative of them. Exploring the site is additionally very simple and the subsequent at all times assists clients with connecting consistently with the site
Cons
Nothing to add here. My general experience was great. I never had an issue or needed to reach out to help. At whatever point I had an uncertainty, I had the option to tackle them just by actually taking a look at their documentation library.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Cloudflare...has lost its luster
Reviewed on 12/06/2023
Cloudflare has evolved from a simple tool to guarantee 24/7 availability and quick response time....
Cloudflare has evolved from a simple tool to guarantee 24/7 availability and quick response time. When I compared it to QUIC.cloud and LiteSpeed, I found it did not perform as well.
Pros
Cloudflare provides a number of features that are important/essential for small business websites (DNS management, caching, SSL, etc.)
Cons
Overly complex and increasingly expensive without achieving optimal performance and 24/7 guarantees.
- Industry: Libraries
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- 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.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Great free CDN
Reviewed on 04/04/2021
I started using Cloudflare after learning how CDNs could improve site speed. My site speed wasn't...
I started using Cloudflare after learning how CDNs could improve site speed. My site speed wasn't great and I had tried literally everything else so I figured it was time to try a CDN. I did a lot of research and Cloudflare seemed to be the best and most secure network. Although it didn't improve my site speed, I still had an overall good experience with it. If I ever went back to using a CDN for reasons other than site speed, I would choose Cloudflare again.
Pros
The free plan is great for small to medium-sized websites. It has all you need at no cost! Customer service is excellent. I reached out to them several times because I had questions about the setup process and they always got back to me very fast.
Cons
It is not the most user-friendly software. It's complicated to set up and takes some time to learn your way around it. It also did not improve my site speed by much. I installed Cloudflare mainly to improve my site speed but the improvement was very small.
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: USD 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:
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:
AddThis, 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, 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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