Cloudflare Scalability

Spencer Malmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Tech Exchange

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.

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

I rate Cloudflare eight out of 10 for scalability. 

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KornthawatPhichitoakkhanit - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Business Developer at GWS Cloud

It is scalable.

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DP
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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FS
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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RM
President and CEO at Mekas Cloud Services

It is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems with scalability.

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RI
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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MR
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. 

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

No scalability issues so far.

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

The solution is scalable.

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SA
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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BW
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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PC
Independent Consultant at Unaikui

The solution’s scalability is good.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues; moving to the pro version was a simple as a click.

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

I have only scaled this to a few million viewers with a couple TB of traffic, but I didn’t see any issues.

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

We never had scalability issues.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues at all.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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

We have not encountered any scalability issues in the paid version.

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

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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

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

I have not yet encountered any scalability issues.

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

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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DI
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.

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

No issues encountered.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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SO
Technical Support Engineer at Professional Technologies Kenya

This is a scalable solution. 

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BA
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. 

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it_user850401 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
it_user92823 - PeerSpot reviewer
Online Marketing & Development Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

No problems with scalability; we moved from free to pro to business with no problem.

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MC
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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AF
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.

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

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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MU
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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