Cloudflare Benefits

reviewer9207524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft Auditor at Microsoft Inc.

We're creating and editing a service connection to SaaS data or third-party REST endpoints, which has been an intrinsic process to moderate governance and network discovery. 

There's also the challenge of blending this next-generation technology with the many pieces of legacy equipment currently deployed across the defense landscape. Traditional components such as RFICs (radio frequency integrated circuits) and digital-signal-processing units (DSPs) can continue to be used. Preeminent services also include providing its customers the cloud strategy, recommendations, and roadmap to make their information technology infrastructure modern, optimized, secure, compliant, reliable, and better performing.

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BC
Analista de Infraestrutura SêniorAnalista at Unifique Telecomunicações

Cloudflare's solution brought us more agility, security, and confidence in managing the environment.

We have seen that there are very few failures or almost none that occur on the Cloudflare servers, and if they occur, the accesses are distributed to another region.

We like that we have a view of where the main accesses came from, such as the main countries, and also what was being blocked by the web application firewall (WAF)

Creating a rule to limit some admin access also improved the security and integrity of our environment.

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

I did use Cloudflare as a freelancer or for my personal projects. So I made some websites, and I recommended my freelance customers to use Cloudflare for their DNS management. Also, I did use it in one organization. It was a startup, and it was me and my friend working there, so I did recommend the startup owner to use Cloudflare because of caching functionalities that could speed up your websites and so on.

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

One of my projects, ancient-origins.net, gets 3 million views per month, so serving the page fast is an important element. Using the CDN of Cloudflare improved the speed significantly, reducing the page loading times to appropriate levels. Additionally their security features make sure to block attacks on our site.

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

Cloudflare has made management of my website much easier by combining various functions in one platform without compromising quality. There are also less dark UX patterns than other vendors, so I have peace of mind knowing they aren't trying to trick me or make complicated procedures to attempt to lock me into their service. That is very refreshing!

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

I manage these websites independently within my organization and, with exception of a third-party vendor, I am the only one that has access to our Cloudflare account. It helps me ensure the sites are running optimally and securely.

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

CloudFlare's caching brings the load speed down from 4.32 seconds to 2.45 seconds.

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

I have not used it at my current organization, but in the past I have used it to bring enterprise-grade features to my small business clients at low or no cost.

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

CloudFlare made it easier for us to manage our client’s DNS. With their outstanding UI, we have been able to reduce human errors and get a better overview of our DNS and security.

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

As mentioned, it helps me manage DNS records for more than 100 domains with ease. It helps in web page optimization & helps keep the website secure. If it was not for CloudFlare, I would have to hire a dedicated resource to manage all this for me. However, not even couple of hours a week on CloudFlare helps me offer fast & secure websites to my clients mostly for free or at a very minimal cost.

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

No comments, because I am using it only for creating a cache flushing tool that will work on Adobe Experience Manger (AEM).

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

We have specific high-visibility "campaigns" that are scheduled about every six weeks, and the rest of the time our site is quieter. We've used Cloudflare to handle the ability to post dynamic, timebound content as well as more static content delivery.

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

Once a domain's name servers have been pointed to CloudFlare, you never have to worry about DNS propagation. This would be the case, for example, if you wanted to point a domain to a different EC2/digital ocean instance.

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

Honestly the product has not really improved the way of my organisation. I just let the product take care of my security in term of networking attacks, but this is not a magic product. You still have to take care of other security matters which are important in network administration.

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

Provides peace of mind. We do not have to do things over and over, or double check their work, or worry about what could have happened due to a potential DDOS attack, if we didn't have protection.

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AH
Manager - Web Development at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • We use the DNS management for all of our domains. It brings all websites under the umbrella of CloudFlare.
  • We no longer require any other security levels, as all websites under CloudFlare wrappers are secure with DDoS protection.
  • We do not need to implement complex caching techniques as the CloudFlare content caching helps to minimize the website load time.
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it_user506838 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

This product has kept the site up while under an attack.

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

Utilizing Cloudflare allows us to deploy websites using less hardware due to their caching and helps us serve pages to our customers more quickly and efficiently.

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

It allows us to have a backup in case Incapsula has issues.

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

Cloudflare improved my organization because my servers used to have a lot of traffic. We put it on the public settings and now it's quite nice because there is no downtime, if there is a slow connection or a lot of web traffic.

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

Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations.

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

It offers single-point DNS management for all of the company’s domains that might be registered with different registrars.

Refreshing the site cache is very fast and easy, and the developers mode is also a great feature.

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MP
Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer at Kurungsiku

- Easier DNS management via API

- Easier http to https redirect using page rules

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it_user158886 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 51-200 employees

Because our website is blazing fast it improves our conversion rates.

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

CloudFlare has positively improved my site's speed, performance and security. Also, having servers with data centers located in Germany and the Netherlands, it worked great for our EU customers. However, we couldn't exactly deliver the same load times for clients located outside of EU, for example in Asia. Having our websites cached with CloudFlare's servers all over the world, this is no longer an issue.

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it_user993687 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at bitmart

This solution has improved the security of our organization.

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