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    Cloudflare

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

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    Community Pulse
    Cloudflare
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
    Chose Cloudflare
    A few years ago, GoDaddy started charging us to be their DNS provider, and Cloudflare didn't charge, so we moved to Cloudflare. Also, Cloudflare was known for security protection, for example DDOS protection, and we haven't had any issues since moving to Cloudflare.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is on another level compared to any other CDN provider out there.
    One of the reasons is that encompasses all the tools into one big products instead of relying on many different products from many companies - DNS, CDN, WAF are all managed in one place and connected …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare was better, because we do not have to host or purchase any additional hardware. This means reduced costs for us to have to buy the hardware. Then, hire people to run the hardwar, and support the hardware. And, it also means you need SME's for the tool that have used …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare's cloud/geo-relative implementation is best-suited for publicly available web resources.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare's product offering is more mature and has demonstrated success in preventing some of the largest DDoS attacks observed. Cloudflare also continues to reinvest in their core product offering to ensure they maintain a position as leader in the cybersecurity space.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare knows what they're doing when Load Balancing and Redundancy meet the cloud. AWS is a partner, and we're exploring other solutions which are performing at the highest level.

    Peak season is upon us, and we cannot suffer downtime. DDoS Protection is another interesting …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has much better interface and is easier to use on a daily basis
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable CDN service integrated with AWS. Couldflare provides us more other functions and services than Amazon CloudFront. Google Cloud CDN offers fast and reliable content delivery with integration into Google Cloud services. But we didn't deploy …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is complex to set up but is still better suited to our environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare addresses Pipefy a well-defined cache system with several features to improve the performance of the applications. This is the main focus + excellent reliability and stability.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Overall we are using Cloudflare as well as AWS cloud across various domains in our organization. To some extent such as DNS management on Route53, CloudFront takes advantage of Cloudflare as it provides a straightforward UI for DNS management. But when it comes to traffic …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    DDOS
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    Chose Cloudflare
    20% of the entire world traffic run through Cloudflare data centers
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare can't compare to the reliability and ease of setup configuration.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is much easier to configure compared to these services.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    I've not really used anything like Cloudflare before utilizing Cloudflare.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    More flexible.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Low investment, easy setup, great product, and solid security features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    AWS Cloudfront is so poon in UI, features. Almost you cannot compare them because the scale is too large.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Better than other software in the same field as per price time to implement easy to learn and use, good simple easy to understand user interface and very few false positives plus our compliance with cyber insurance is right on the money we no longer have to jump extra hopes to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    It's much cheaper even has free version, easy to use and integrate with our current system, it has so many features in the dashboard that I need.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Zscaler Private Access and Cloudflare Access are very similar product sets that trade blows when it comes to features and capabilities. In my experience Cloudflare unified dashboard and distributed infrastructure has the upper hand when compared to ZScaler.

    As a Home Lab …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has lower starting cost for backend Workers and good pricing model with steps.
    Auto-scaling by default better than microservice/docker or EC2.
    Security makes simpler.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    R2 is just a cheaper and faster version of S3. Same developer API.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    They have the most generous free offering, and after the free offering limit is reached - you're still getting plenty of value for the buck.
    They have very good reputation.
    They have an ever expanding list of tools that can support multiple scenarios under one roof.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    152 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    147 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    152 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    135 Answers
    User Ratings
    Cloudflare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (141 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cloudflare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare works well as security measure that gives peace of mind without needing to work too hard to get it functioning well. It provides great tools to customize the security experience as well. This is all the same for the caching tools as well. They have a lot of built in tools that make using the caching easy right out of the box, but they provide the customization options to get things just right for your site.
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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    Excellent product, Cloudflare is a true pioneer of the modern Internet, providing tools, services, and expertise that vastly improve the performance and security of web services. Any issues are resolved quickly with detailed RCA and follow-ups published publicly. I'm thankful to Cloudflare and use their services both at work and at home.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    They have the most generous free offering, and after the free offering limit is reached - you're still getting plenty of value for the buck.
    They have very good reputation.
    They have an ever expanding list of tools that can support multiple scenarios under one roof.
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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