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reviewer9207524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft Auditor at Microsoft Inc.

We did not previously use a different solution. 

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

Before Cloudflare, we relied on on-prem hardware and software solutions.

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KornthawatPhichitoakkhanit - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Business Developer at GWS Cloud

I believe that because we reside in Thailand and primarily operate in this market, Akamai has a better understanding of the Thai market model and cost structure. Moreover, Akamai has strong partnerships with various mobile operators and mini-operators in Thailand, which adds to their advantage. However, I must admit that the user interface (UI) of Akamai is somewhat lacking compared to Cloudflare. When it comes to security, Akamai often outperforms Cloudflare. But if we consider content delivery, I find Cloudflare to be a hundred times better.

I use both of these services for video delivery, specifically customized online content delivery tasks. They facilitate the distribution of video content over the network. In this regard, Akamai is one of my top choices as it excels compared to other software options.

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

Akamai is more user-friendly and easy to configure on the UI for a new person. Imperva is also a good solution that provides most of the features Akamai provides.

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DP
Network engineer at Ufinet

We didn't use a different solution apart from Cloudflare.

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

I am also familiar with Akamai and Fastly. Cloudflare is easier to manage than the solutions provided by these vendors. The user experience is much more straightforward and appeals to a lot of developers.

Akamai, however, is the largest and most popular CDN. It's a very sturdy solution. They basically made this industry, 20 years ago, paving the way for newest vendors such as Cloudflare.

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

We used MaxCDN, but we switched to Cloudflare because MaxCDN lacks security features.

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

I switched to Cloudflare from GoDaddy because Cloudflare promoted "at cost" domains. 

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BW
VP/Director of IT

I carried out a comparison of Cloudflare with Call Ways, which was a good runner-up. Not only because of the sophistication of their cloud monitoring system, but they also have zero remediation, which means that they will tell you that you've got a problem even though they can't fix it. I'm also looking at Support Net as a primary firewall to replace the firewalls that I'm going to retire. I accidentally found Cloudflare, which offered me a lot more than any of the other companies, because the first thing it did was to encrypt all my traffic. Microsoft had failed us and as a result I had to shut everything down for three days and reconfigure firewalls and everything before bringing it all back up again.

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

We used our own name servers and Snort. We switched due to simplicity of the CloudFlare interface.

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

I have used a couple of different solutions like Incapsula, CloudFront, and Akamai, but for different projects, not before or after.

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it_user324771 - PeerSpot reviewer
COO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We had many previous solutions and that’s why we switched.

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it_user512130 - PeerSpot reviewer
WordPress Developer & Consultant at a tech services company

I was using MaxCDN for content delivery network services, but have never looked back as CloudFlare offers the same feature for free.

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

Before using CloudFlare, I used Amazon CloudFront and Akamai.

I used CloudFlare because I was creating a cache flushing tool for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). This tool will be responsible for flushing the cache from different CDN networks, such as Akamai, CloudFront, and CloudFlare.

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

I did not, perhaps I had to, in order to be a little bit more objective about this kind of product, but since I implemented CloudFlare, I have been happy with them.

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

I did not use any previous solution. In fact, I searched for a few and selected CloudFlare.

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

I did not previously use a different solution. This was the first CDN company I have used.

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

Cloudflare was the first service of this type I've used.

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

We previously used pretty much all solutions. In some cases, Incapsula is better; in others, CloudFlare is.

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

We used a previous combination of CloudFlare and a manual router with a load balancer. The solution that would be most comparable with CloudFlare based on my experience would be physical load balancing and cloud-based load balancing.

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

We are simultaneously using Akamai, which is sometimes too robust for us, much harder to configure and costs a lot more. CloudFlare is very user friendly, UX-wise and price-wise.

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

We haven't used CDN networks, but we experimented with Varnish, xCache, Gzip, eAccelerator and other PHP/Apache caching solutions. Since they weren't very configurable (except for Varnish), CloudFlare has provided a much better solution, allowing us to move away from running multiple caching instances on our local servers.

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