We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Fortinet FortiADC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The UI is good."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."
"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."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"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."
"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. 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 Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer.
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