We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"The web application firewall brought us good security and a view of the accesses/blocks of the entire domain and subdomain that were accessed both by region (country) and IPs."
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"It's very user-friendly."
"Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. You don't necessarily need a certificate if you have a connection between your website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new website."
"The technical support is excellent."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"They lack a good way to manage DNS as a company, since everything is relegated to single account logins until you get to the higher levels. They have come out with a paid feature to remedy this, but I have not had a chance to fully review it yet to know if it fixes the access problem."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"Technical support is lacking."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"It's quite expensive."
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 55 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Cloudflare vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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