Cloudflare Reviews & Product Details

There is nothing easier, that we have found, that we can use and have setup in minutes that provides CDN, Security, Web Application Firewall, and other features. When you dig deeper into the professional and business plans and other ways you can use the features of CloudFlare, you'll never want to use anything else.

The only issue I have ever had with CloudFlare is when their portal goes down or acts up from time to time. It is rare but does happen.

With the amount of attacks increasing daily on CMS platforms we wanted a tool that can help stave off attacks while supplying a speed increase. CloudFlare makes it easy to setup and change security levels. If you have another security tool in place to let you know you're under attack you can also tell CloudFlare to increase the security. One of the easiest implementations of CloudFlare Pro is to use iThemes Security and the Sunny plugin. When iThemes blacklists an IP it sends the information to CloudFlare where the IP is also blacklsited. If you monitor multiple sites the IP list can apply to all of your managed sites.

CloudFlare provides a lot of cool features, and at the same time it's incredibly easy to set up and configure. It's a genuinely flawless experience, I haven't noticed a bug in years. And for personal (or otherwise cash-strapped) projects, the free tier is awesome — it covers practically everything a small to medium-sized website might ask for, and it costs $0.00! Can't beat that price point, I guess.

That's by no means CloudFlare's fault, but their IPs sometimes get blocked by Russian, Chinese and probably other officials. So in case you're interested in totalitarian demographic, CF might not be a fitting solution. Again, this is not a technical issue, more of a political one — CloudFlare are doing everything right, in my honest opinion.

We're serving both static and dynamic content to a lot of customers, globally. CloudFlare improves the loading times across the board, which is great.

I own a small agency and I manage around 40-50 websites through Cloudflare. Imagine you'd have to deal with different control panels on all those websites to make a simple change to a DNS record. I use Cloudflare as a nameserver on all my client domains, so I know I can manage the DNS in a single control panel. Works beautifully.

The pricing starts a bit high, but they do offer a free tier, which has been sufficient for all my clients to date.

I no longer have to deal with different control panels to do the same thing on a domain (which is manage DNS records). By using cloudflare as the nameserver of the domain, all the DNS records are in 1 place, saving my huge amounts of time & effort.

It's free, stable, has DNS management and SSL. Easy to use.

Email notifications "your account was accessed from different IP"

Domain parking, DNS management for sites. All sites in single dashboard. Easy to setup SSL for new sites.

The caching and the fact that many features come with the free plan.

Some of the features I'd really like are for enterprise accounts only. :/

Speeding up websites! Decreased pageload times.

Everything about cloudflare is great - it's so simple to set up and administer your account. What I like best though is the amazing support and documentation. Everything is extremely clear and helpful. They're also constantly improving the service, so any problems I faced when I first started using it have since been resolved.

You loose control over your infrastructure when you use any CDN, not just Cloudflare. However I feel Cloudflare, in its simplicity, is rather less transparent when it comes to showing users what it's doing for their websites behind the scenes.

Increased speed and security are the main benefits. Mainly the global network of servers means that you get speed benefits for users all over the world, not just in the vicinity of your hosting provider.

I have used Cloudflare for several years and have always recommended them to clients. They have a top notch UI and a very intuitive workflow for getting setup.

Occasionally it can be difficult to find the documentation for what you might be trying to do, but I think this has been a product of Cloudflare continually adding new features.

We have used Cloudflare for everything from better DNS management to security/firewall to serving of site assets on an enterprise-scale website for a global non-profit. It has increased our productivity and website response times since using Cloudflare.

It's free SSL capabilities are amazing for small websites - it is really improving the face of web security, and small people no longer have to pay exorbitant certificate fees. Its DNS management is also fantastic, and its setup procedure is well thought-out and easy to use.

I wish the Cloudflare API was a little more open and easy to interface with, and it would be *great* if we could supply a page that is shown when my website is offline instead of their standard one. Also since their website redesign I find it occasionally hard to navigate around the site and switch between websites.

It allows my websites, which support my freelance business, to stay up even when they are hit by large amounts of traffic, meaning that I don't miss out on viewers and potential clients.

I like how you can turn on and off a TLS cert with the click of a button. It makes caching easy, and it's free. I also like how easy it is to manage DNS

I wish it had domain name hosting. This is the only feature I'm missing.

It makes my app available anywhere

It is incredibly easy to setup. They manage your DNS, and have an easy to use interface. The API is also a nice bonus add. The web application firewall works great on blocking attacks. We have saved so much bandwidth since switching our website to them. The CDN was invisible to us - it cached our images, javascript and css for us. They also have great third part add-ons.

Logging can be hard to search through, the reports and analytics are also sparse. The only way to upload multiple custom SSL certificates is with the enterprise version. Without the API its hard to clear the cache for certain images or files. Other then that it is a solid product.

Web Application Firewall and content delivery. It met both of those needs very well for us, protecting us and saving us bandwidth