Cloudflare Scalability
Cloudflare is highly scalable. Cloudflare is a system with a web portal that the end users like me see. It's a console where we can adjust the DNS, caching, and security features all in that console. Cloudflare owns thousands of servers across the world that cache the data. It's a powerful solution. When clients sign up for Cloudflare, they're getting this monster content delivery network, security, and a web application firewall in one. It's all rolled into one, and it's massive.
Unless you have your website hosted on a massive hosting provider, there's no way that you can deliver the amount of data that Cloudflare can provide to the end users. If you have static content, there's no way that you can ever match what Cloudflare can do. Obviously, there are competitors to Cloudflare that do the same, but I'm saying other types of solutions.
Let's say you go with F5. Great, that's on-prem. That's in your colo. You can't deliver as much data to the internet as you can with a CDN. You don't have to spend $20,000 on a net scaler, F5, or whatever Cisco's selling now. You don't have to buy that. You pay them $50 a month or $150 a month. It's totally worth it because even in five years, you'll never get the performance value, not just the actual ROI. You have to consider how much throughput you can get with Cloudflare.
I rate Cloudflare eight out of 10 for scalability.
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Dniel Parra
Network engineer at Ufinet
Cloudflare is a scalable solution. The process to scale it is clear, and the Cloudflare team will contact you to check if you want to scale up.
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reviewer1245303
Senior Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is great. They're expanding and have enough resources worldwide.
Our customers are typically enterprise-level organizations.
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Raj Meka
President and CEO at Mekas Cloud Services
It is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems with scalability.
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reviewer2198715
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I rate its scalability a ten out of ten because I had no issues with it. Also, it was fast when updating my DNS records. So, that's why I always recommend it to my friends and organizations I deal with.
I have plans to increase the usage of the solution.
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Mahmmoud Rabie
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
I would rate the solution's scalability a ten out of ten since I didn't encounter any issues with it.
View full review »No scalability issues so far.
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Ryan Pellette
Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
So far, scalability has done well, but I am not a heavy user.
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reviewer1537209
SecOps Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is scalable.
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Shahwar Ahmed
Customer Success Associate at RapidCompute
The solution is scalable to each customer's needs. For example, you can scale up if you have two domains and want to add a third. It is easy to incorporate scaling.
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BrianWilliams
VP/Director of IT
The solution is open ended like with Cisco so quite scalable. I'm the only one using it and, at this point, I'm probably using 2% of their overall capacity. We're in the process of reevaluating our presence on the cloud, our data on the cloud and our ability to do work in the cloud.
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Prajith Chowthee
Independent Consultant at Unaikui
The solution’s scalability is good.
I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.
I have not encountered any scalability issues; moving to the pro version was a simple as a click.
View full review »I have only scaled this to a few million viewers with a couple TB of traffic, but I didn’t see any issues.
View full review »We never had scalability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues at all.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues in the paid version.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with scalability.
View full review »Scalability is not a problem for CloudFlare since they are a cloud based solution. I think I had the biggest year for my service in 2014, in terms of traffic. My website was spread over two servers, with CloudFlare on top of them, and everything went well.
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Tch40Dr800
Business Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I can't say, since we actually just deployed it. Our organization has already grown. For now, it serves our needs and manages are our expansion.
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Aum e Hani
Manager - Web Development at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have not yet encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues. You can move up to bigger packages if you are under a heavy DDoS attack.
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reviewer1527936
Competence Center Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution can scale well.
I rate the scalability of Cloudflare an eight out of ten.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
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Stephen Odongo
Technical Support Engineer at Professional Technologies Kenya
This is a scalable solution.
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BrahmanggiAditya
Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
For our websites, it is only around 100 to 1000 visitors per day. For the deployment and maintenance of Cloudflare, just one person is required for maintenance.
View full review »No problems with scalability; we moved from free to pro to business with no problem.
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reviewer1329336
Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The solution is easy to scale. A company shouldn't have any issues with expansion if they need to.
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reviewer1011657
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution doesn't really depend on the number of users, so much as the general traffic. In that sense, it can scale. It's a pretty scalable product.
View full review »Since we are on the same plan since the first day we started with CloudFlare, we haven't had much experience with scalability.
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reviewer1330161
Information Technology Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
It is scalable. My company deploys it for end-users and in the meantime, I deployed it on my own website.
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