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What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a global cloud platform designed to enhance website security, performance, and reliability through its integrated suite of products. It offers services like a content delivery network (CDN), DDoS attack protection, and secure web application firewalls to protect and accelerate any internet application. Additionally, Cloudflare provides services for internet routing, DNS resolution, and distributed network intelligence to optimize user experience and ensure high availability.

Company Cloudflare
Year founded 2009
Company size 1001-5000 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California
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Languages English
Cloudflare Features
API Access
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Real-Time Analytics
SSL/TLS Encryption
Support for Multiple Origins
Token Authentication
Video Streaming
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455 Cloudflare Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 22, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"CloudFlare Review"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

It helps prevent DDoS Attacks from coming in, allowing the site to not be hit off and have a down time. It is reliable and great to use, since CloudFlare been implemented, our site has been up since we started hosting it. There's also a free version of CloudFlare for smaller companies, which is still as reliable as paid..

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is somewhat hard to implement to our website, must change DNS Servers in order to use. Cloudflare modifies the code of your pages, slow down website, block your website and make your website crash.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solved DDOS Issues, you can also monitor all your visitors & gather information about them, since many websites using cloudflare get the same IP and same DNS, and since your website finds himself with other websites that aren't as nice as yours .

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 22, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Cloudflare firewall"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

I like that cloudflare offers a comprehensive solution for CDN that includes a firewall

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Do not dislike anything about it at the moment. Perhaps lower prices would be nice.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Added security with the benefit of Content Delivery Network

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 18, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Cloudflare WAF Keeps my Site Safe at All times"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

The Cloudflare WAF is simple and easy to use always keeping my website safe from hackers

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

There really is not anything that our company dislikes about Cloudfare WAF. It works great for at us at all times.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has allowed us to save time by avoiding getting our sites attacked and hacked which was a problem in the past before we started using Cloudflare.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 28, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Good, easy DNS management"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is extremely simple and easy to use, though it has many options for DNA and beyond.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

It can be hard to understand the differences between the pricing tiers.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

DNS management for several of our sites can be managed from the same account with a simple interface. Cloudflare also takes cybersecurity seriously and its dedication to accessible SSL licenses and other security measures is priceless.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 31, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Ganas velocidad con el cambio"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Con este servidor DNS conseguimos mejorar significativamente la velocidad de Internet en el PC. Además prometen una mejora de la privacidad.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

El principal problema que nos encontramos es que no podemos acceder a a intranet de la empresa. Además de los problemas que hemos encontrado al usarlo con algunos routers de Movisar, aunque el problema lo han solucionado con una actualización de Firmware.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mejoramos la velocidad de conexión a internet

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 25, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"CloudFlare easy setup, reliable"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Easy to setup and connect your sites in CloudFlare. Instructions are step-by-step. It's usually very fast to get started. Very reliable platform as well and you can see the system status at any time.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Nothing to dislike really. It is a very easy platform and solution for anyone to use as long as you can read instructions you can use this.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Extra level of protection from attacks and gives an extra security blanket as well.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 10, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Using CloudFlare for Years! "
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

We have been using CloudFlare for years on our ecommerce website. Great software, keep the mind at easy knowing we have CloudFlare in place

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Starts out as a free service, but as you grow, a little bit more needs to become invested into the service.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudFlare definitely helps to speeds up the website.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 13, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Perfect"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare's DDoS Protection service greatly reduces the needs for any small publisher to worry about DDoS attacks. When you are limited in the time, and resources you can rely on a service such as Cloudflare to manage your security with a fairly simplified dashboard that provides a welcomed user experience.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

To be honest, most of the Cloudflare protection and security services are great, my only gripe would be that sometimes I have been alerted to false positives in some of their services by remote employees when their IPs were not whitelisted.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

The primary business problem was easy security management. As I mentioned a small business doesn't always have the time or resources to dedicate to every need all the time and a service like this provides a way to be on prepared for multiple types of security intrusions.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 22, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"CloudFlare is an easy-to-setup and rich-featured toolset"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Most advantage in CloudFlare is that it is easy-to-setup and contains a rich feature-set even for the free package. What I like most is that my website stays partly available even if the server have a malfunction or they are accidently offline. Besides that CloudFlare helps to setup caches and improvements to speed up my website and keeps attackers away. These optimizations are quite useful.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Actually there is not much that I dont like about CloudFlare. Their DNS settings could be a bit better regarding to CNAME redirection, and maybe one or two of their packages could be included in the free plan or the upgrade could be a bit cheaper. However, I almost set up every website with CloudFlare as long as it is mostly static. The benefit with non-static websites is okay but to my mind not really worth it. Also, some adjustments (e.g. RocketScript) may break your website javascript completely.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

I do run a small website for code snippets for a big community. Since this website is mostly static and the content is generated into a Github repository it is perfect for CloudFlare optimizations.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 13, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Easy setup and great performance"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare was integrated with my host which is one of the main reasons I started to use it, but not the reason I continue to use it. I love the easy setup and great performance that it offers. It also has a killer simple design that makes finding what I need a cake walk.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

There is nothing that I truly dislike about this service though a major improvement would be more streamlined integration. A solution that would allow me to make changes without logging into my dashboard would be fantastic.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Stopped hacking and improved performance.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 07, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Plug n' Play solution for a TON of web dev problems"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Once I experienced the pleasure of having a dedicated layer to dealing with external threats and bots, as well as optimizing asset delivery in a way that used to be a huge hassle during the build process, it's pretty tough to go back. CloudFlare is one such a service, and uses it's position between the client and your servers to deal with a ton of issues. Their threat detection layer is great for WordPress installations, and other packaged systems that are popular targets for bots. Watching the analytics screen as threats are detected and blocked is very satisfying, and definitely helps with sleep at night. Their optimization features are pretty fine-grained and powerful. It's nice to be able to serve an audio or image file directly from a server, only to have Cloudflare compress and distribute it to its edge servers, so that my server barely even gets hit, and my users all get the best experience possible. It's so much nicer for the application code to not have to consider delivery problems.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Getting CloudFlare to play nice with S3 Buckets is a little bit tricky; it requires some naming conventions and configuration options that are not trivial to change once you've set them up. Since I didn't anticipate this when I set up my S3 buckets (4 years ago), I decided it wasn't worth it to jump through all the hoops required to make the change, so I still use Amazon's CloudFront for that problem. Unfortunate, since CloudFront simply doesn't provide some of the cool compression features that CloudFlare does. I'm left handling that at the application level for my S3 assets. Some of their page rules are close to - but not exactly - what I want. I wish some of them were more customizable, without upgrading to their much more expensive enterprise plan.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Optimized delivery of images, CSS, JavaScript, and other assets. Cacheing, threat detection and deterrent, CDN.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 07, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Your shield against ddos"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Cloud flare have proxy located around the world. That makes that the visitor can access the site quickly via chache. by that feature i can save bandwidth and server request, less request to the server more performance.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

But it not always rainbows right?, because the use of proxies cache, wherever you make an update in your site it may have a delay to the change for take effect. Basic mode can't manage SSL certificates.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

My clients can sleep well unworry about any attack to their website and in the event of server's shutdown our guest can still access to the website thanks to CloudFlare assitance.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 07, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"High performance cloud solution"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

A very fast, reliable and secure cloud solution. Quick setup and good support.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Support and configurability could be improved. Can't really turn off chunked-encoding in responses but not really a big deal.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our company wanted a reliable, fast and secure cloud based solution with minimal maintenance. CloudFlare gave us exactly that.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 06, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Fantastic service for common web hosting necessities."
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Free security features (e.g. DDoS prevention), free CDN for fast static content delivery, easy to navigate web portal, and ease of use.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Nothing in particular. There are a few features that would nice to have in the free version (e.g. secure web sockets, but I can't complain!

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

With DDoS prevention and CDN, I've noticed less downtime.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 11, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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"Smooth, Impressive and super fast"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

The speed of propagation of DNS update, also the easy to use API

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Cache clearance sometimes dont work, it will be nice if it is improved on

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Intead of having our own custom DNS, we interface cloudflare to serve our clients

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Nov 28, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
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"Best in class"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Best part about this is, I can use it with ease. Documentation is readily available and it has a great user community.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

There is nothing to dislike about this great product. It's just amazing.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've been using cloudfare WAF for protecting our websites, and it has been working like a charm!

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 01, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
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"CDN as code is an absolutely great DevOps opportunity"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

They really deliver all the feature as the parts of the official terraform provider, and it is absolutely great. Compared to the other CDNs we used, this is an absolutely killer feature, still. My fav thing about CF is that your changes are literally being deployed into the edge in seconds, it is still unbelievable.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Dashboard is getting busier and more laggy with years, unfortunately. I believe, classic design was the best, especially for analytics.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our previous CDN had couple of issues: absolutely non-functioning WAF, no terraform providers, deployment of changes took hours (literally). All these topics were fully covered by CF.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 16, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
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"Positive experience using cloudfare cdn."
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

It is easy to use, implement, and integrate.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

The performance needs some improvements for better traffic handling.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving problem of optimizing corporate internal streaming platform while streaming on org level.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 22, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
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"Pretty good experience"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare DNS has transformed my internet browsing experience. Its lightning-fast speed, coupled with robust security features like DNS over HTTPS and threat protection, ensure both speed and safety. Setup was a breeze, even for non-techies, and the customizable filtering options are a bonus. The service's reliability and no-cost pricing make it a standout choice. Highly recommended!

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

It sometimes doesn't even allows legal websites to load.

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Slow Internet Speeds: Traditional DNS services can sometimes result in slow website loading times due to latency and inefficiencies. Cloudflare DNS addresses this by leveraging its global network infrastructure, which is designed to deliver speedy responses to DNS queries. This translates into faster website loading times, quicker downloads, and smoother online experiences.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 18, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
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Founder
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"Nice security"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Fastest response time.unparalleled redundancy

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Nothing to dislike about this as off my knowledge

What problems is Cloudflare solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am new user of cloudflare dns