Cloudflare vs. F5 Silverline DDoS Protection Comparison

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F5 Silverline DDoS Protection

Cloudflare

Read 7 Cloudflare reviews.

19,334 views|16,704 comparisons

F5 Silverline DDoS Protection

Read 3 F5 Silverline DDoS Protection reviews.

3,050 views|2,329 comparisons

Most Helpful Review

XiaofengLiu

User at bitmart

Has helped improve the security of our organization

This solution has improved the security of our organization.

Reza Torabi

Senior Network Engineer at PECCO

The core features help us with compliance but the reporting needs to be improved

There is an external auditor that provides us with a checklist that has the security processes and policies that we need to follow, and this... Read more »

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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution.""The technical support is good.""It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls.""The most valuable feature is the web application firewall.""The solution is very good at mitigating threats.""New and innovative way to protect the client's data." More Cloudflare Pros »	"The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process.""We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents.""F5 technical support is really good." More F5 Silverline DDoS Protection Pros »
Cons
"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.""The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage.""It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration.""There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers.""The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful.""Technical support is lacking." More Cloudflare Cons »	"The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration.""You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell.""In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing." More F5 Silverline DDoS Protection Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice
"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees.""The cost primarily depends on the size of the organization." More Cloudflare Pricing and Cost Advice »	Information Not Available

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Questions from the Community
Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating? Top Answer: Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GRE tunnels. We have decreased site load times on Mobile 3G from 8 to 1,6 seconds by… more » Read all 7 answers Which should I choose, Cloudflare or Imperva Incapsula? Top Answer: Imperva Incapsula. Has the biggest POP capacity. Read all 10 answers What do you like most about Cloudflare? Top Answer: It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls. Read all 4 answers	What do you like most about F5 Silverline DDoS Protection? Top Answer: F5 technical support is really good. Read all 3 answers What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Silverline DDoS Protection? Top Answer: Again, if the solution doesn't have a web application firewall capability, it can raise the solution price. Pricing can be higher than the other solutions. What needs improvement with F5 Silverline DDoS Protection? Top Answer: To make this solution much better, they must have a user-friendly configuration interface. I'm working for a partner site, so for the technical portion, it must have great troubleshooting stats. For… more » Read all 3 answers
Ranking
2nd out of 40 in DDoS Views 19,334 Comparisons 16,704 Reviews 6 Average Words per Review 486 Avg. Rating 8.2	10th out of 40 in DDoS Views 3,050 Comparisons 2,329 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 491 Avg. Rating 7.3
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Cloudflare	F5
Overview
Cloudflare is the leading performance and security company helping to build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers more than 9 million Internet applications. More than 10 trillion Internet requests flow through Cloudflare’s network each month, accounting for nearly 10% of all Internet requests globally. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.	F5 Silverline DDoS Protection is a service delivered via the Silverline cloud-based platform. It provides detection and mitigation to stop even the largest of volumetric DDoS attacks from reaching your network. Silverline services are wholly deployed and managed by experts from F5’s Security Operations Center (SOC). That means you have access to highly specialized security experts, 24/7.
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Sample Customers
Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.	Sarasota County Schools
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Energy/Utilities Company15% Marketing Services Firm15% Engineering Company15% Financial Services Firm15% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider21% Media Company9% Retailer5%	VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company25% Comms Service Provider21% Retailer8% Real Estate/Law Firm8%
Company Size
REVIEWERS Small Business66% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise16%	No Data Available

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