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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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Managed by:
Axel Grubba
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Capabilities
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Segment
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Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based
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Languages English
Cloudflare Features
API Access
Advanced Routing
Bandwidth Management
Content Caching
Content Purge
Custom Error Pages
Custom SSL Certificates
Customizable Cache Rules
DDoS Protection
Dynamic Content Acceleration
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GZIP Compression
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Global Network Coverage
HTTP/2 Support
IPv6 Support
Image Optimization
Instant Purge API
Load Balancing
Log Management
Mobile Optimization
Multi-CDN Support
Origin Shield
Real-Time Analytics
SSL/TLS Encryption
Support for Multiple Origins
Token Authentication
Video Streaming
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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Last updated: October 04, 2024
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455 Cloudflare Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 07, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"A good product, but ..."
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

A good product, but ... It is simple to configure, edit the DNS domain configuration and ready. It is easy to configure Apache server.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Personally I do not like error messages when the source server is not available, you think that if you use this service if the server does not run the website will continue to operate. I know this is not true but I know people who have bought this service thinking that this was happening.

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

On a server with many visitors we thought it was the solution. Allowed to increase performance and decrease CPU utilization.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 05, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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"Experience with Cloudflare WAF"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

It provides great security features to avert different attacks on the server. It provided great firewall against hackers.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

It's cost is a concern for me. Also, little tricky in some cases to implement

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

I had multiple servers hosted on one machine which where required to protect from DDos attacks and other security threats. It helped me do it quite well.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 18, 2020
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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"necessary for a website"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

great hosting and great support. we cannot go without this software for hosting our website. there is a good free plan and has lots of features. performance is better than most other software. dont have to choose specific content to cache or edit site code.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

expensive. price is higher than other options but performance is better so it is worth it.

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

we use for CDN and hosting.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 29, 2018
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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"Extra layer of encryption & security"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Cloudfare DNS is pretty easy to set up with existing ISP. It adds a layer of encryption so it's more difficult for the ISP to see the data that's being sent to view websites. 1.1.1.1 does not mine any user data. Logs are kept for 24 hours for debugging purposes, then they are purged.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

This is a relatively difficult concept for some people to understand and it also leaves the trust to cloudfare that their encryption is working as intended and there's no bugs in their code. The terms of service can always change

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

Encrypting data between client and ISP. The main reasons to switch to a third-party DNS resolver are security and performance. ISPs do not always use strong encryption on their DNS or support DNSSEC, which makes their DNS queries vulnerable to data breaches and exposes users to threats like man-in-the-middle attacks.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 28, 2017
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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"Great CDN with a usable free service tier for small businesses."
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Protects my website effectively, and has even taken care of SSL issues I have had with my services just by switching. It really has boosted my websites performance and once it is set up, there isn't much else needed. They also provide a very nice WordPress plugin to make things work even easier.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

While the nature of using a CDN (DNS etc) service is inherently complicated, the user interface for management and setup needs a lot of work. Because of the way it is laid out, it is very easy to get lost.

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

Protecting my website from attacks and improving performance for my customers accessing my website.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 25, 2016
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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"Web Developer and system admin for 10's of sites that use cloudflare's CDN"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

The free tier is great, I've used it and a number of others have as well with good success.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

The configuration for SSL isn't very straight forward, took a while to figure out. Also sometimes cache expiration can be hard to get configured correctly and test.

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

Website performance, security

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 06, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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"Cloudflare Review"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Accessibility, possibility of sharing contents among team equivalents

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Need few improvements according to documentation and manuals

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

Team task development has been easier, improving time-to-rollout

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 31, 2019
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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"Ok for smaller businesses needing access to their servers"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Ok for smaller businesses needing access to their servers. Doesn't do the job for medium to large sized businesses yet. But they appear to be heading in the right direction.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Ok for access to specific services from external but doesn't do the job for allowing access and authenticating into a corporate network.

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

Access to specific servers through ssh from external to internal network.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 26, 2018
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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"Some good features, not the perfect solution"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Good customer support and easy to use dashboards and reporting.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Integration with Drupal is spotty. Site cache-ing is cumbersome. Site speed hasn't caught up yet.

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

Faster site, WAF.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 13, 2016
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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"Its fast when I dont notice, but returns 404 on small scaled sites."
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Quality product for premium customers. Probably one of the best out there that offers a freemium model.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Less efforts to make it faster in rural areas. Its just in comparison to amazon, I actually have seen sites down and the error message of cloudfare. Something like 500 internal server error.

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

I work at an education startup, even though we recently switched to amazon cloud services - I have personally used cloudfare for my own blogs and websites.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 31, 2019
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Overall Rating:
2.0
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"Widely used service"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

It has a lot of features and provides all the essential content delivery network services

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Two major DDOS attacks occurred. Working at a financial institution, this is a huge problem in terms of security

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

Using cloudflare to provide the network infrastructure to delivery our webpages to clients

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 22, 2019
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Overall Rating:
2.0
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"Airline"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

How to get a good night's sleep in the bagroom room with jd

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Burlingame police chief John king said he

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

Burlingame police chief John Kelly told the

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 05, 2022
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Overall Rating:
1.0
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"Cloudflare does not provide any support"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare has similar features to other CDN providers. They try to package it better, but their main focus is on marketing and sales, not proving good service. They are constantly pushing their different features and trying to upsell stuff.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare does not provide any support! Even for paying customers like me, there is no way to contact support other than email. Following the advice of the sales team, the only people one can talk to, I submitted a support ticket. I never heard back from them. After more than 12 hours and 3 more calls to the sales team trying to connect to someone who can help resolve the issue, I have switched to AWS Route53. I still don't know what happened and how my account was hacked, but one thing I know now is that Cloudflare does not provide any support and the button "Under Attack?" on their homepage is a joke.

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

I have not realized and specific benefits with the Cloudflare CDN. Other providers provide the same features, but are better in supporting their customers.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 12, 2021
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Overall Rating:
1.0
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"Pricey plan. Switched to AWS and glad I did."
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

- Innovative product but competition offered the same for lower price - When I stopped using cloudflare products

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

- Bad user interface - Complicated pricing and billing - My website got attacked and customer support did not really help me out

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

No benefits realized with Cloudflare CDN

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 21, 2016
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Overall Rating:
1.0
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"Bit of a Disaster as unable to cancel"
What do you like best about Cloudflare?

Back end functionality Good - Simple to use and set up

What do you dislike about Cloudflare?

"Cloudflare is a system used for boosting page load speeds, this provided some limited speed improvements when checked with Google Page speed checker. However it has many downsides including IP and functionality issues, so this may suite a basic single page non interaction site. However I would warn against any other types of site using as any minimal improvements are massively outweighed by the issues. Also Cancelling is almost impossible and Cloudflare try to avoid at all costs - So Beware. Think twice before using due to potential issues also Easy to Sign Up - Difficult to Leave" Customer Support Non Existant!

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

Tried to increase website speed.