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Cloudflare Description

Cloudflare is the foundation of your infrastructure, applications, teams, and software. Cloudflare protects and ensures the reliability and security of your external-facing resources like websites, APIs, applications, and other web services. It protects your internal resources, such as behind-the firewall applications, teams, devices, and devices. It is also your platform to develop globally scalable applications. Your website, APIs, applications, and other channels are key to doing business with customers and suppliers. It is essential that these resources are reliable, secure, and performant as the world shifts online. Cloudflare for Infrastructure provides a complete solution that enables this for everything connected to the Internet. Your internal teams can rely on behind-the-firewall apps and devices to support their work. Remote work is increasing rapidly and is putting a strain on many organizations' VPNs and other hardware solutions.

Pricing

Pricing Starts At:
$20 per website
Pricing Information:
Pro Plan - When billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly
Free Version:
Yes

Integrations

API:
Yes, Cloudflare has an API

Reviews - 12 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Cloudflare
Year Founded:
2009
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
Type of Training
Documentation

Cloudflare Features and Options

CDN Provider

Content Acceleration
DDoS Protection
Load Balancing
Managed CDN
Multi-CDN Switching
Reporting/Analytics
Software Downloads
Transparent Caching
Video Streaming
Web Application Firewalls (WAF)

Managed DNS Service

Anti-Malware
Change Management
DDoS Protection
DNS Failover
DNS Propagation
Disaster Recovery
Global DNS Network
Intelligent Traffic Routing
Load Balancing
Reporting / Analytics
Secondary DNS
Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Firewall Software

Alerts / Notifications
Application Visibility / Control
Automated Testing
Intrusion Prevention
LDAP Integration
Physical / Virtual Environment
Sandbox / Threat Simulation
Threat Identification

Domain Name Registrars

DNS Service
Domain Parking
Domain Privacy
Email Hosting
Extended Expiration Protection
SSL Certificates
Web Hosting
Website Builder

IT Security Software

Anti Spam
Anti Virus
Email Attachment Protection
Event Tracking
IP Protection
Internet Usage Monitoring
Intrusion Detection System
Spyware Removal
Two-Factor Authentication
Vulnerability Scanning
Web Threat Management
Web Traffic Reporting

Network Security Software

Access Control
Analytics / Reporting
Firewalls
Internet Usage Monitoring
Intrusion Detection System
Threat Response
VPN
Vulnerability Scanning

Cloud Security Software

Antivirus
Application Security
Behavioral Analytics
Encryption
Endpoint Management
Incident Management
Intrusion Detection System
Threat Intelligence
Two-Factor Authentication
Vulnerability Management

Load Balancing Software

Authentication
Automatic Configuration
Content Caching
Content Routing
Data Compression
Health Monitoring
Predefined Protocols
Redundancy Checking
Reverse Proxy
SSL Offload
Schedulers

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Software

Baseline Manager
Diagnostic Tools
Full Transaction Diagnostics
Performance Control
Resource Management
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Server Performance
Trace Individual Transactions

Email Security Software

Anti Spam
Anti Virus
Email Attachment Protection
Encryption
Policy Management
Quarantine
Reporting/Analytics
Whitelisting / Blacklisting

Cybersecurity Software

AI / Machine Learning
Behavioral Analytics
Endpoint Management
IOC Verification
Incident Management
Tokenization
Vulnerability Scanning
Whitelisting / Blacklisting

Website Optimization Tools

Competitor Analysis
Content Management
Keyword Research Tools
Link Management
Performance Metrics
Problem Area Alerts

DDoS Protection Service

DNS Amplification Protection
DNS Reflection Protection
High Network Capacity
Illegitimate Traffic Recognition
Infrastructure Protection (Layer 3/Layer 4)
Post Attack Analysis
Traffic Monitoring
Website Protection (Layer 7)

Web Application Firewalls (WAF)

Access Control / Permissions
Alerts / Notifications
Automate and Orchestrate Security
Automated Attack Detection
DDoS Protection
Dashboard
IP Reputation Checking
Managed Rules
OWASP Protection
Reporting / Analytics
Secure App Delivery
Server Cloaking
Virtual Patching
Zero-Day Attack Prevention

Cloudflare Lists

  • Name: Gary D.
    Job Title: Owner
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Hidden Gem

    Date: Jun 23 2021

    Summary: A must have for any website. Most people that build their own websites don't know how important it is to have protection. Easy to use, simple interface and lots of tutorials.

    Positive: Great service to offer protection to my website. It was easy to set up and complete. Offered me protection that I did not know I needed and made my website load faster.

    Negative: Don't have anything to say that this service lacked. Cloudflare provided my website protection and more.

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  • Name: Sandra C.
    Job Title: Director of Business Development
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Cloudflare protects websites with maximum efficiency

    Date: Mar 29 2021

    Summary: This application lacks many functions that are essential to perform tasks within a secure web. Although the functions that it does perform, it does them correctly in the face of any online threat, since it has a wider attack surface area.

    Positive: It is very useful as this application generates detailed reports of the traffic generated by our domains, so we determine how many users access and what is their main interest within the page. Similarly, it complies with a report management and control of web threats.

    Negative: Although this application takes action through a network security software, it does not offer anti-spam functions, spyware removal or protection against attachments that have a dubious origin. This leaves a lot to be desired for users who really want to keep an eye on their domain security.

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  • Name: Rodrigo V.
    Job Title: Chief Marketing Strategist
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Cloudflare shows good results in improving the speed of our network

    Date: Mar 21 2021

    Summary: To protect against attacks on our network connections it is best to configure the Cloudflare firewall to act as intuitively as possible. We recommend it to avoid being a victim of threats such as web page forgeries, or processes that try to inject databases into our system.

    Positive: Using Cloudflare it is possible to greatly optimize the performance, or at best the quality of performance that internet connections have, because it works as a system that balances web loads so that they deliver specific content. In addition, it is a perfect filter against all kinds of threats to our network.

    Negative: Cloudflare focuses too much on the management of online threats, leaving aside entirely those that can make their way through other types of connections, demonstrating that it is not really an antivirus. The advantage of this situation is that, if configured to work with an antivirus, the online protection is even greater.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software Engineer Director
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User, Deployment
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    I'm impressed with Cloudflare performance

    Date: Aug 31 2020

    Summary: Cloudflare is the best free CDN tool. It delivers great automated protections form several web attacks including DDoS attacks. It's a very vital part of the website to increase security. It's my personal favorite platform.

    Positive: With Cloudflare, you can protect websites form several attacks including DDoS and bots.
    Free to use platform.
    Cloudflare helps to reduce server bandwidth.
    Simple to change nameserver.

    Negative: It does its job very well. I'm impressed with its performance.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Data analyst
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Security and performance for websites

    Edited: Aug 19 2020

    Summary: It's an amazing CDN software. Overall I use Cloudflare on my business website. It protects my website from any threats and also helps to optimize the website for better performance and boosts loading speed.

    Positive: It's very easy to deploy and implement. Protects website from DDoS attack. Optimizes the overall website. Reduces the loading time. Protection plan for many other security threats. It prevents hacking attempts.

    Negative: Overall its an outstanding CDN tool.

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  • Name: Aman V.
    Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 5,000 - 9,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Essential for websites

    Date: Aug 04 2020

    Summary: Cloudflare acts as a security shield for your website and provides essential features like optimization, security and cache. It is a must have for any website.

    Positive: Website optimization.
    Caching for better speed and availability in downtime.
    Security layer by providing DDoS protection and SSL certificates.
    Available for free.

    Negative: No cons. It is great and even available for free use.

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  • Name: ANURAG S.
    Job Title: Marketing Analyst
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Global CDN with Front Line of Defense

    Date: Jun 27 2020

    Summary: I'm using Cloudflare as one and only CDN on our website. The crawling and cache of website is very fast. The best part of this is - It prevents the websites even from DDoS attacks, by absorbing the unnatural traffic in its different servers spread over the globe. Its one time process, Setup once and forget, Cloudflare will take care of the rest. There is also a feature in which if your blog is down due to any reason, Cloudflare will show static content instead of Error to your visitors. All these feature are even in freemium version which make completely stand out of the others.

    Positive: Cloudflare is world class CDN and front line defense of our website, The integration process is super easy and quick. The features includes -
    1. DDoS Attack mitigation
    2. Global CDN with Servers in more than 95 countries.
    3. Set up and forget
    4. Traffic load balancing

    Negative: All the features what Cloudflare is offering with any plan even the freemium one, cant be compared with any one. I don't have anything to complain.

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  • Name: Kunal R.
    Job Title: Manager
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Protector and optimizer tool

    Date: Jun 21 2020

    Summary: Cloudflare is a lifesaver solution for my business website. It's CDN service makes my website very optimized and easy to load. It also protects my site from various DDoS attacks and gives alarming mail for any security vulnerabilities. I highly recommend using Cloudflare service if you own a website because it gives complete protection and optimization.

    Positive: Cloudflare can easily detect any vulnerabilities and gives an alarming recommendation. It filters and easily detects unusual traffic and spammers. It helps me easy to blacklist certain IP address. It reduces site loading time without compromising its quality and features.

    Negative: Honestly, in my long usage, I never felt any usage issue with Cloudflare and it's services.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software Developer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Shield for your website

    Date: Jun 06 2020

    Summary: Cloudflare is the complete solution for your website protection and optimization. It acts as a DNS manager, SSL issuer, CDN and even DDOS blocker, making it a versatile tool and a must have for any website owner.

    Positive: Secure & reliable.
    Static caching Helps optimize website loading speed.
    Free tier available.
    DNS management.
    Ensures 100% uptime.

    Negative: Interface can be made simpler & more intuitive for beginners and non-technical users.

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  • Name: Brooke C.
    Job Title: Student
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Good collection of services, generous free tier

    Date: Nov 13 2021

    Summary: Good products, free tier allows a generous amount of experimentation, somewhat lacking in the user experience department.

    Positive: Pages and Workers are both useful products that encourage good project architecture. The DNS product doesn't do anything special other than CNAME flattening. The proxy product seems somewhat useful but it is hard to judge its effectiveness.

    Negative: The UI/UX seem hastily thrown together--navigating the dashboard can be frustrating. Getting repeatedly logged out every time is also not fun (I have 2FA, why do I need to be logged out so often??). Also, I've had several Pages builds simply hang until the ~20min mark and suddenly cancel without any error message or log.

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  • Name: Cinzia P.
    Job Title: Corporate PMO Director
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Cloudflare, good online domain protection

    Date: Apr 11 2021

    Summary: We feel that the application has a couple of notable shortcomings that are important for what it is intended for. However, the overall monitoring it provides for our domain seems to us to be sufficient to maintain state-of-the-art online computer security. We also recommend it for its accurate results that have allowed us to take timely action on more than one occasion.

    Positive: Cloudflare has allowed us to have a control of cyber threats in our domain and allows us to perform daily scans automatically or manually. It also offers detailed reports through metrics of how much is the user traffic within the page and predictive results in case it detects vulnerabilities.

    Negative: We find it deficient as the application does not provide security in terms of detection and eradication of spyware or spam files. For companies like us, which have comment boxes where sharing attachments is allowed, we can not control those of dubious origin trafficked by users.

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  • Name: Kelly C.
    Job Title: Independent Contractor Hearing Examiner
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Cloudflare surprises with its security policies

    Date: Mar 20 2021

    Summary: What seems surprising about Cloudflare is the speed with which it can be configured to carry out visualizations of each vulnerability event that occurs on the local network, which ends up facilitating the creation of reports for prompt solutions. Cloudflare is quite useful for managing threats, but not directly eliminating them.

    Positive: With the configuration tools that Cloudflare includes it is not difficult to improve the level of our websites, as it allows us to opt for features such as two-step authentication, and at the same time creates routine reports with the content of the pages that have been visited within the local network, which helps to delimit threat problems from their origin.

    Negative: Cloudflare, despite having so many tools to track threats and manage them, is not really an antivirus, so it does not have any trunk or repair function in case of computer attacks. Nor is it possible to use it to carry out the elimination of spyware, or intrusions to our network.

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