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Spencer Malmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Tech Exchange

I rate CloudFlare 10 out of 10. I couldn't recommend it more strongly. If you have a website, you need to use Cloudflare or something like it. Don't leave your website unprotected. That's my advice. I set up Cloudflare for every client that wants to host a website because it protects their site and makes it easier for me to manage the DNS. 

I get them to pay the $20 for it. That's the bare minimum. If you want something that can enhance the security of your website, just do Cloudflare. I always do it. I mean, I'm always going to add to my Cloudflare base. I'm never going to shrink unless I find something better. But I don't know of any other solutions that.

You can do a self-sign. That's a couple hundred dollars a year that you don't have to spend, and you don't have to manage that. You can lock down your security on your website so that only the Cloudflare data centers can access your web server. You're limiting a lot of risks.

Let's say you're hosting your site on GoDaddy. GoDaddy's server is unprotected. It's just a server out there. They have enterprise IDS and all that other stuff, but for the most part, they're vulnerable. People attack them all the time. You can limit that by only allowing access to your website from Cloudflare servers. Cloudflare stands in front of your servers as a firewall. That increases performance and security. It limits a lot of access to your servers. 

There are so many benefits here. You don't need SSL on your site, which is excellent, because you don't have to pay for that certificate. That makes it a lot easier. Troubleshooting your site for problems and not having SSL enabled between you and Cloudflare is huge. 

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XA
Product manager at Infozion

For Cloudflare, I recommend it heavily for small businesses with revenue under a couple of million dollars. Onboarding is easy, and they even have a free plan. This makes it simple for businesses in the $100,000-$500,000 range to try it out and see its value, allowing them to scale up their infrastructure as needed.

Many small businesses lack the budget for solutions like AWS and rely on GoDaddy, hosting, or even Versal plans for their initial setup. At that level, Cloudflare is the best option, even though it's not as powerful as Amazon CloudFront or Akamai. Those are built for different services, while Cloudflare caters specifically to smaller teams that eventually scale up.

For smaller businesses, they're the absolute best, so I'd give Cloudflare a nine out of ten. 

For larger businesses, it depends on the budget. Even for them, I'd rate it a seven out of ten.

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reviewer9207524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft Auditor at Microsoft Inc.

Monitor the progress against the audit program to ensure the audit is completed, in a timely and quality manner and prepare an audit report for governance.

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M.A. Faisal - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at .bKash Limited

Overall, I would rate it 5 out of 10. 

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Bo Bo  Zin - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Technology Department & Transformation at Yoma Bank

I rate Cloudflare seven out of 10. It isn't bad overall, but it's difficult to use in this country. 

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KornthawatPhichitoakkhanit - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Business Developer at GWS Cloud

If you don't have significant funds, our initial suggestion might be to try the free tier first. This way, you can gain a better understanding of your specific requirements before considering alternatives. However, it's worth noting that Cloudflare is relatively user-friendly and straightforward to use, making it one of the easiest options available

I would overall rate it a six out of 10.

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FS
Senior Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We are partners with Cloudflare.

I would rate Cloudflare an eight out of ten.

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Bilal Mujahid - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed Services Manager at Adapture Technology Group

Our clients include larger companies such as one that sells automobile parts globally, another that deals with banks and financial institutions, etc. It is mostly recommended for enterprises. 

I highly recommend Cloudflare as a superior solution compared to others in the market. It offers coverage for various use cases, including SaaS products, web application security, and Content Delivery Network systems. Additionally, Cloudflare provides features like the Magic Transit system, which helps control internal traffic.

I rate it a ten out of ten. 

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MB
Manager- Secure Web Defense- Perimeter Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I have experience with the cloud version of Cloudflare.

I would advise users to explore Cloudflare and Imperva parallelly because they both stand on the same ground regarding security. In Imperva, there is no version control on their console, which was concerning for me.

Overall, I rate Cloudflare a seven out of ten.

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DP
Network engineer at Ufinet

My company has different computing tools in Colombia, Miami, South America, Brazil, and Chile, such as Akamai, Cloudflare, CDN, and Google Playbook.

I have hands-on experience with Akamai, Twitch, and Cloudflare.

My company is a Cloudflare customer.

Three engineers handle the deployment and maintenance of Cloudflare within my company. The NOC team monitors the cluster, and if there's any issue, my team checks the port, and the engineers review the patch to see if it's okay. If the problem remains, my team escalates to the Operations team responsible for looking into the issue more closely. Within two hours, the Operations team contacts my team about the resolution.

I'd recommend Cloudflare to other companies because it helps monitor traffic.

My rating for Cloudflare is a ten out of ten because it's a helpful tool, and I didn't find anything wrong with it.

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RM
President and CEO at Mekas Cloud Services

It all depends on what the customer is looking for. These are two different areas. Basically, CloudFare is completely Cloud-based, whereas Imperva I can have a physical appliance or a virtual appliance, or a cloud-based. 

My solution is based on what customers are looking for, but Cloudflare is pretty good and getting really popular in terms of DDoS, the paid version of it.

We looked at the service. What are acceptable latencies? Is it okay to route through a different vendor, and before it reaches the backup? They have to go through multiple vendors. You also have to consider what the latencies cost and is that acceptable for the service. These are key things you need to consider when selecting a cloud-based vendor for DDoS.

I would rate Cloudflare a nine out of ten.

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MM
Senior Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I think this solution is quite intuitive. For businesses that don't have a dedicated security team, I think it's a better product; it's more intuitive for people like us. I'm a network security engineer, but I'm not a dedicated security official. I've too many other things going on to have the time to do the rule sets that you need if you're working with Imperva — I think a lot of that is down to you as the customer. With Cloudflare, I think a lot of that happens in the background. 

I've been working with it for a week and a half so I'm not the best person to say if it's better or worse than Imperva. My only reaction is that maybe it's not as feature-rich for the end-user. Whether that's an advantage, well, that's questionable. Maybe we don't need all of those features sometimes — it depends on the business. The business I'm working in now is a very different business with a different kind of security model. The business I was working with when I used Imperva probably needed that feature-rich capability.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Cloudflare a rating of eight. It's quite intuitive. I like it. From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet.

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FS
Senior Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

This product is well-developed and they are expanding into other spaces.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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RI
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I was using the free plan, and mainly, I was using it for DNS management as it was simple. When I buy a new domain, I don't use the main DNS management system. Also, I use it for IP protection. I didn't have the time to really use much of the solution. As far as I know, it's all good. I did see a new feature, but I didn't really manage to get it. I didn't use it.

I would definitely recommend it to those planning to use it.

I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

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MR
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

I will rate the product an eight out of ten. Cloudflare is better than Cloud DNS. You need to start using Terraform along with Cloudflare. It will make your life easier without the need for manual creation. People usually thing they are going to use Cloudflare less but will end up using it more. 

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it_user253797 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant, Business Owner, Lecturer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

If your budget is low, then Cloudflare is the only cost effective solution, at least to begin with. The best combination of CDN and security features at a low price. At a slightly higher budget, Incapsula may be a better solution especially since they provide a faster CDN and better security features.

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RP
Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I encourage anyone interested in holistic internet service delivery solutions to check out Cloudflare. They have nice simple solutions that work well together, are easy to set up, and their UI/UX is intuitive.

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PC
Independent Consultant at Unaikui

You might be on the free edition, depending on your chosen edition. With the free edition, you receive the top ten protection services.

If Microsoft offered something similar to Cloudflare at the same price, it would be much better because you're already on Azure utilizing resources for CI/CD and transitioning to Cloudflare. From the most basic functionalities to the highest level, they are all awesome if you prevent unauthorized access to your website data through penetration testing.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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SA
Customer Success Associate at RapidCompute

I recommend the solution for customers who don't yet have an idea how much bandwidth they need or who anticipate upscaling in a few months. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

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BW
VP/Director of IT

There is a lot of documentation and I would recommend reading it. I think that's how they want their tech support to work, through community. The community doesn't talk so well with each other like the Microsoft community because Microsoft's been around a lot longer. It isn't quite working perfectly yet and they don't have experts to answer the questions. They want the users to come to the realization for themselves, based on what I see in the conversations in the communities. It's a millennial mentality. We don't have to be involved, we'll just make the product and let them solve their own problems. That's an issue for me.

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

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it_user846651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior SEO Strategist at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

I would rate Cloudflare a nine out of 10. I haven’t used any other solutions that might compete with Cloudflare, so I am a bit biased, but for ease of use, features, and cost effectiveness, I think it’s a great solution.

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MG
SecOps Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

Maintenance is easy; we receive a notification whenever maintenance is needed, as well as if a major restoration is required and what the likelihood of the system going offline will be.

I recommend Cloudflare.

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it_user508683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems and New Media Manager at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees

Give it a shot. The setup was easy and you can see the results right away.

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it_user851871 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

This product is good for simple things, but you may need other tools for more fine-grained control of specific portions.

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it_user324771 - PeerSpot reviewer
COO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
  • Never put your eggs in one basket. Make sure that you have a contingency plan for DNS.
  • Make sure that you can rapidly move domains off CloudFlare. This can be done with scripting from your existing registrar, or with GoDaddy/CFR/Route53, which is a good triangle for speedy moves.
  • Keep an eye on GEO statistics on your important domains and make sure that you are able to provide a quick regional alternative.
  • Spread out domains over multiple accounts and different CloudFlare Servers.
  • Route53 is a good alternative to CloudFlare.
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it_user512130 - PeerSpot reviewer
WordPress Developer & Consultant at a tech services company

Use the page rules and flexible SSL, for sure. If you have an e-commerce portal, then implement the full SSL support.

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it_user514341 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In my opinion, CloudFlare is one of the best CDN networks I have ever used. It provides a quick flushing feature that is not supported in some of other popular CDN networks such as Akamai and CloudFront. CloudFlare is a very easy-to-use CDN as compared to others.

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it_user566124 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Web Developer, Managing Director at a tech company with 51-200 employees

They have a few introductory screencasts for people just getting started, which is helpful. I've now implemented CloudFlare on three new projects, so for most common cases it is solid and straightforward.

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it_user577530 - PeerSpot reviewer
Ui Developer at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

Ask for guidance from someone who has done it before.

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it_user276009 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Prepare your implementation while making tests in a pre-production environment. Do not let CloudFlare take care of everything, you still have to take care of security matters for your services.

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AP
CTO at QROK GmbH

I would rate Cloudflare an eight out of ten.

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ET
Business Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

My advice would be to review exactly what you need and talk to different people to understand the potential advantages and pitfalls of implementing these kinds of solutions. Then identify the right product to meet your requirements.

From a solution perspective and from a product perspective I would give Cloudflare an eight out of 10. It's a reasonably priced solution that meets customers' needs and it's not too difficult to deploy.

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AH
Manager - Web Development at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If someone is looking for a secure and optimized wrapper over an open website, I would suggest CloudFlare services. It will instantly help you to secure and optimize websites/web pages or blogs. It is quick, easy to use, and simple to implement.

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it_user506838 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

If you need your website accessible at all times, consider going with them.

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DI
Competence Center Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I rate Cloudflare an eight out of ten.

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it_user241758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would recommend that you use it. It has been very useful and well worth the cost to me over the last three years.

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it_user298149 - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux/Cisco/Microsoft Infraestructure Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Don’t hesitate to contact support; they answer very quickly.

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SO
Technical Support Engineer at Professional Technologies Kenya

The overall performance of this solution is what make it one of the best solutions on the market. It is important to be able to convince customers that this solution woks well and customers will still have control, even though it is a cloud solution. 

I would rate this solution a x out of ten. 

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BA
Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In my experience, Cloudflare is a great solution. 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.

I believe that Cloudflare is okay as it is now because they are partnering with Google. Cloudflare improves performance on my websites. It is a great partner for cloud infrastructure for anyone who wants to use the security service and other features.

I would rate Cloudflare with an eight out of ten. I know they are constantly improving.

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it_user850401 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I'd rate it a 10 out of 10. There is no service as mature as Cloudflare that is also as easy to use, reliable, and hosted from excellent infrastructure.

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it_user92823 - PeerSpot reviewer
Online Marketing & Development Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

CloudFlare provides an answer to a variety of issues, so it gives you very high value for your money.

If you are not sure, take it for a test run; it’s free.

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MC
Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We're partners with Cloudflare.

This solution is the best product. It does not charge you for any kind of attack on your traffic. It charges you only for any good traffic. It can mitigate up to 30 TBPS of DDoS attacks. If the attack happens and if there is a surge in the traffic, it will only charge you for the good traffic. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

I'd rate it higher, however, I believe they are still building out their product. There are still items that could be added that will make it even better in the future.

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AF
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We are just a customer and an end-user. We don't have a business relationship with the company.

We are using the latest version of the solution currently. I can't speak to the exact version number, however.

I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten overall. We've been quite happy with its capabilities.

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it_user279867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Shift Lead with 501-1,000 employees

Since it's a low-risk implementation, I encourage all users that have issues with their response times, occasional DOS attacks and page rendering to give CloudFlare a go.

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it_user993687 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at bitmart

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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MU
Information Technology Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Try to deploy it on your website and test it on your site to see how it works. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten.

It already has a good feature set, I don't think it needs anything else. To make it a ten, the documentation should be simplified. 

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