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
Incapsula
Constellix
Neustar UltraDNS
KeyCDN
Reviews
Already have Cloudflare?
Software buyers need your help! Product reviews help the rest of us make great decisions.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best CDN ever
Reviewed on 15/08/2022
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: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
One or the best CDNs!
Reviewed on 01/10/2020
Pros
The overall experience with them has been great. It’s not only simple to setup, but also they have a huge documentation library where you can get a lot of information: from them, compatibility with other softwares, best configurations, etc.
The results you get by just getting their free plan are more than enough for small-medium companies. Also, they hace more than 150 servers around the world, so the performance results are really great, even comparing with some other paid services.
Cons
Nothing to add here. My overall experience was really good. I never had an issue or had to get in touch with support. When ever I had a doubt, I was able to solve them just by checking their documentation library.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used for 1+ year
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Cloudflare slowed down my sites and caused problems
Reviewed on 12/02/2021
I never used the paid version of Cloudflare, because I didn't feel like it was worth the money and...
I never used the paid version of Cloudflare, because I didn't feel like it was worth the money and my experiences with the free version (often included with regular hosting providers, like A2 Hosting). I only really had disappointing experiences with Cloudflare. This is one of the very few negative reviews I've ever written, but I did want to share this as I stopped using Cloudflare years ago, because of this.
By the way, I am yet to find a CDN that I'm really happy about, but at least my current CDN doesn't break my site. It does slow it down sometimes though. So there's that.
Pros
Well, I don't really like Cloudflare at all, since its purpose should be to speed up websites, but after years of using it, I found in most occasions (at least for me - based in Europe) it had adverse affects.
Cons
Cloudflare was slowing down my websites, causing conflicts and the typical "Error 502 - Bad gateway" error!! When I stopped using Cloudflare, I never had this issue anymore. And it wasn't just me. Sometimes I come across websites that use Cloudflare, and when I see this error, it brings back bad memories...
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
What an awesome software
Reviewed on 25/02/2023
Overall Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) and cybersecurity that provides online...
Overall Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) and cybersecurity that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites, apps and other internet properties. It offers various services including web acceleration, DNS management and various security services including distributed denial of service attack mitigation, web application firewall, bot mitigation and identity verification services.
Pros
Cloudflare is a high-performance global network. It offers secure and reliable services at competitive prices. In addition it offers powerful WAF and DDoS protection as well as an easy-to-use and user-friendly dashboard. Customizable DNS and caching plus advanced analytics and real-time analytics.
Cons
Caching may cause some website features to not load correctly. Also, the preparation can be complicated in some cases. Customization options are also quite limited, and costs can add up quickly depending on service level and usage.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for Free Trial
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- 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.
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: 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
Related categories
See all software categories found for Cloudflare.
- Application Performance Management Tools
- Cloud Security 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 Solutions
- Content Delivery Network Software
