Cloudflare Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

For anyone starting out in the world of web development, setting up and using a CDN can be a very daunting task. This is where Cloudflare comes in. With a streamlined setup process and straightforward controls, you will be set up and ready to go within minutes of signing up for an account. For 90% of users out there, the free version provides above and beyond what you will require from a CDN. With additional DDoS protection, a strong firewall and extremely fast caching, it takes your website from being about average to one of the best on the market. Some websites can experience load times that are anywhere between 2x and 10x faster.

Being limited to 3 page rules is one thing where Cloudflare feels like it could fall short on. 5 would've been a nice number. But if you can get a little technical with how URLs work in general, you can combine multiple rules into one, giving in essence more than 3 page rules.

Google searches have proven that if users don't see a webpage within 2 seconds of clicking a link, they never visit the website again. With Cloudflare, not only do users see my webpage within a second of clicking a link, they are also incentivized to look around and in doing so, find more content that they might be interested in. This has increased user retention for my website, while also helping sign up new users to the mailing list to keep an active pool of engaged users.

Out of the box it gives me great features and help for my various websites, and all for free.

I literally can't think of one thing I am unhappy about.

Easy to do HSTS, and SSL. Prevent DDOS attacks. Interesting Analytics, though not having more time options is frustrating, yet understandable on a free plan. I want to try the integration with the WP app but don't really need it yet.

Cloudflare CDN have servers all over the globe, which reaches my customers very quickly no matter where they’re located. A slow website can decrease engagement and retention, but with Cloudflare, I can be confident that my website will load quickly for everyone internationally. Cloudflare also saves my website’s data usage and have a nice panel showing the bandwidth I’m saving with Cloudflare. This lowers my infrastructure costs so I don’t have to pay more for data since Cloudflare already cached my images and files through their CDN.

Sometimes website functionality can break if they’re proxied through Cloudflare. Sometimes I have to turn off Cloudflare when I’m editing my website. Other than that little nuisance, I can’t really complain when they’re offering this service for free.

Cloudflare has made my site availability higher because they use anycast IPs to serve my website instead of just one centralized IP. My website mainly stream and deliver videos, so it’s important that it remains uncensored and fast. I believe that this will allow my websites to bypass country blocks and reach more visitors in the world.

It's easy to use You can take advantage of their massive CDN capabilities for free Many security settings DNS configuration Easy migration Great spam protection

You can't clear cache for 1 subdomain without a paid option

Offering a free CDN to all my customers

Free trial! it also is great for site speed

there were a few instances were the site went down due to proxies not being set up properly on our end, but there was no walk-through to help.

Site speed as increased 20%

I like the fact that Cloudflare caches our most bandwidth-heavy resources so that our customers experience fast loadtimes and a seamless user experience.

When performing a custom cache purge, we are limited to a specific URL, and cannot specify individual resources contained within that URL.

Our user interface relies upon a huge amount of video and audio content. Our customers experience fast loadtimes and a seamless user experience because of Cloudflare.

Cloudflare is the service I put in front of every website I manage, as the very first thing. The range of features Cloudflare provides on every tier, even the free one, is unmatched by any other CDN or security provider, Every new feature they add is an engineer's dream, and I find myself nodding in approval, even if that feature is not relevant to me or my company.

I have absolutely no use for their App marketplace,

With Cloudflare we always use these features: - DDoS protection - automatic security features - web application firewall rules - top notch DNS, incl. DNS security features - lowest cost domain names anywhere - full fledged CDN - automated CDN features such as Brotli compression and webp image transcoding - page rules to handle admin pages differently from visitor-facing website

Cloudflare is the market dominator in cloud computing, DNS, CDN, Security, and firewall. Said that Cloudflare provides unbeatably the best in class performance to price ration products. Cloudflare solved the major problem of mine which was DDoS, others include proxy traffic tunnel and real time traffic acceleration. it provides speed, security, and reliability at affordable prices which I like the most.

The only problem is that their services for free to entry-level category the system automatically over-rides the SSL present on the website and server and transfers it to its domains and SSL providers, which is kind of annoying. There is a very low limit of want you can do suing spectrum as the bandwidth is very low for the price in certain areas. RDP being the most used in the pandemic Covid-19 it 10GB monthly allowances and $1/Gb is kind of too much for just proxying the traffic because it uses data quickly.

The problems which we are solving using spectrum is that we can remotely access and assign servers with little to none configuration in the Cloudflare network and access it anywhere using their software. It is also the first choice that comes to mind because of their reliability.

Cloudflare is dead simple, and without much work on your part, will speed up and secure your website at the DNS level- before anything even hits your web server.

The only issues I've encountered are when Cloudflare's proxy makes it so that other services can't detect DNS records or caching related issues. However you can temporarily disable their proxy service at will, so it's never a big deal.

Cloudflare has solved not only performance issues for clients, but also mitigated DDoS attacks and other automated attacks on our sites. Additionally, it has image optimization in paid plans, and other options that keep your sites running on the latest technology to users who have it available. It's the easiest way to make a noticeable improvement to your site for a total time commitment of like 10 minutes.

1. Maintenance and deployment flexibility via API and Terraform 2. Reducing risk for handling transitions: far less time than rivals to disseminate cap transitions (seconds vs 30 minutes). 3. Managed rules are ready-to-use and require minimum (if applicable) configuration.

In a less developed organization with no logging aggregation tools to use Cloudflare logs, analyzing data to determine thresholds can be difficult, since built-in dashboards are insufficiently targetful for things like speed limitation or bot management. Cloudflare worked great with us, however, to hear such feedback and to enhance native dashboards / experience with time.

Cloudflare provides a excellent off-the-box implementation for more advanced organisations, as well as a very robust / extendable WAF implementation. The product evolves / improves continuously from both the Cloudflare Roadmap and the inclusion of the issues in our comments.

Deploying Cloudflare on your domain takes minutes, the peace of mind is priceless. To install Cloudflare, you enter the domain name, choose the plan and then Cloudflare scans the zone for known hosts, such as all the commonly used cPanel records. These are presented to you to review and then add your own records. Once you have your zone setup on Cloudflare , change your nameservers to the two provided to you by Cloudflare and you're done.

manually checking a large zone for missed records in the initial scan can take a while. By that I mean you can scan your zone and commonly used records are scanned quickly and easily, but anything that's custom or bespoke in terms of A-Name or C-Name records have to be entered manually. I'd like to be able to enter the hostname and have them look them up easier. I understand you can import a zone file, which I have not done yet - so that might help as long as you have access to the existing DNS. Many times we're setting up cloudflare and then having to co-ordinate with an existing 'admin' who won't relinquish access, that can cause issues.

faster DNS, content caching, WAF and centralized firewall. Benefits realized: a. peace of mind b. instant DNS update c. content distribution network d. WAF e. centralized blocklist of malicious actors and their IP addresses f. Visitor and traffic statistics

Unbeatable value on their free plan. I have multiple domains on Cloudflare's CDN and it works like a charm. Incredibly robust toolbox of tools to help protect your website.

Absolutely nothing to dislike about Cloudflare. Amazing services for free.

Free SSL certificates, force site to https, managing DNS, DDOS protection, caching, and the list goes on and on with new features being added often.

CloudFlare DNS is pretty fast to access, with 2FA secured login. The DNS features are really advanced, and offer a multitude of possibilities concerning the records update. Best of all, we were able to choose which record were to go though the Cloud (Secured CloudFlare) and which records were to bypass CloudFlare.

To be honest, in order to use custom nameservers, there is an expensive fee and package (Enterprise) update required.

Thanks to CloudFlare, we were able to securely mange our DNS records for our company's website, optimizing it's cybersecurity in the best possible way.

Totally plug and play, then your website gets faster and securer. 100% worth doing.

Very little. It can get very expensive quite quickly depending on your needs.

Faster serving,

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I'd struggle to pick between peace of mind (WAF) and Page Rules which allow utilisation of the edge caches, both are superb.

Honestly, some features arrive a little half baked. Registrar is an example of something that is great, but still very much MVP for such an important function we do struggle.

Endpoint protection and Cloudflare Access allow us to both sleep at night and easily allow authenticated access to private test domains.

I love that Cloudflare is offering a lot of services for free, so everyone can become a customer of theirs, with no exceptions and excuses of high cost service. Its simple to use and I love that they are constantly relevant and finding new way to surprise their customers - like the information that you can also register the domains with them

I don’t dislike much, maybe the support is not on point as I like it to be

I use Cloudflare for the DNS management mostly, plus the DDoS firewall. On the better performing sites we use also page rules.

Reduced bandwidth usage and peace of mind that customers experience will be fast.

I can't come up with any dislikes, the service works exactly as advertised.

Reduced bandwidth usage and much faster connections by our customers which isn't possible for our small company otherwise.

Being able to have domain registration, DNS, caching, and basic reporting in one interface is great.

Cloudflare has brought many new services, sometimes it can be hard to decipher all possible solutions.

I've mostly used basic CDN and DNS, network speedups using Argo, but going through the UI, there are many other services offered I could take advantage of in the future.

I like the most dns features, because you can find your all dns settings in one place. So you can manage your domain with cloudflare dns feature.

I dislike one thing is that the cloudflare app, ithing this is one bad thing for every cloudflare users. The app section of cloudflare here you can see lots of features by installing app on your site but many app has issues so that this is bad thing for a website owner.

I need a security platform that secure my site by protection and other site enhancement like free ssl, dns settings in one place and also i like the caching my site. Cloudflare is very good for my site, it secure my site and increase other improvements.

Cloudflare is secure and one of the best options to serve your static resources externally. I recommend and use Cloudflare to host images and more such that my client's website load faster. I'm using Cloudflare for more than couple of years and yes it's secure and safe to deliver your files from another server than your website hosted server.

I found the price of Cloudflare a bit higher than others, overall this is not anything to dislike, I suggest 2-3 options to and ost of them end up with Google Cloud, maybe trust and brand name, but I personally like it.

Cloudflare's server helps me to host my images and static files. Hosting files on Cloudflare helped to increase my website's speed and security.

It super easy to set up. I use bootstrap Studio and it had a step by step guide. It shows you the country where the website was visited and all this other information.

Most of the features cost money to use like Email domains and firewalls. I wished it would show you more stats.

I used to use wix but that was more challenging to set up. I get https for free and it tell me all the stats for my website like traffic.

We implemented Cloudflare 3 years ago as our CDN and DNS provider. Till today we haven't noticed any downtime anymore on our websites. The network is very fast and has a lot of bandwidth in case of a ddos attack. We use the caching mechanism to speed up the websites. I like the analytics overview where you can see how many bandwidth is saved and attacks blocked.

Setting up caching caused some conflicts with our Wordpress caching plugin. But there's enough documentation to set things up in the right way.

Cloudflare has saved us lots of bandwidth on our metered webserver.

Cloudflare is currently the best solution in the whole industry when it comes to managing your domain & various services associated with it. Cloudflare provides so many features out of the box for nearly no cost at all. Starting from DNS which not only simple to use but very fast when it comes to updates for your various records. Cloudflare provides a free SSL certificate for communication between your browsers & clients hence making a part of your connection secure again for free. There are so many other features that I can go all day like their workers to manipulate/perform operation on incoming request, cache handling, firewall, custom apps from its marketplace & lots of other features which is why cloudflare is currently the market leader.

The biggest drawback with cloudflare is that in its free tier you have no control over the actual caching of your content. We found it more than often that cloudflare don't cache our resources & even when it does it clear it very frequently (although I set the cache timing to be like many days). Unless & until you upgrade to their paid plans you have little to no control over the caching of your content.

We had earlier moved most of our domains to Cloudflare basically because of great DNS response time but mostly used it for its Content Delivery Network. We used it for one of our test products at that time to cache the images on Cloudflare edge so the response time can decrease leading to good user conversion.

If you are looking for a simple, powerful, secure and free service for your DNS you have to choose Cloudflare DNS. It comes with standard free and paid subscription and it offers advanced services like the protection against DOS attacks, etc.

Sometimes you have to struggle a bit with the domain verification.

You can easily have one place to manage all your DNS records. It also gives you the ability to set the TTL for every entry in order for you to customize completely your solution.

I like how vast the network is. They offer a free plan with a lot of features, including free SSL and DNS manager.

There is nothing which I would dislike since everything they offer works fine.

It is fulfilling my CDN and DNS management needs. It saves a lot of time with easy to use interface and fast DNS updates. All of it comes for free. Then there is SSL option for your site. You can use SSL for free on every domain no matter if your host supports it or not.

I was directed to CloudFlare by my WebHost as a way to reduce downtime and reduce resource use. The change was instantly noticeable as the site loaded far quicker once implemented. It was also very easy to set up.

I didn't receive any notification that the process was done, whichl eft in the cold a bit.

Slow load times and downtime were the main issues, and it has increased my website load speed, as well as well as reducing the amount of downtime I was experiencing.

I loved the fact that it enabled instant SSL protections and HTTPS rewrite. The option to upgrade to a dedicated SSL for just $5 is also amazing. Best of all, the analytics panel, which enabled us at the company to monitor visits and generate reports.

One disadvantage is that their RailGun features is only available in enterprise package. This is far to expensive ($+5000 monthly!)

CloudFlare enabled us to have a secured online platform, fast connection speed to the platform and optimal reporting.

Cloudflare protects our websites against heavy traffic and attacks. They have a powerful network to serve content from around the world. It helps our webserver serving content from multiple locations around the globe to deliver fast loading speeds to our visitors. We use the SSL certificates provided by Cloudflare to encrypt communication to and from our websites.

Cloudflare offers so many optimizations that you have to be careful which ones to use. Some can break your website.

Our websites are more secure because of SSL encryption and protection against attacks.

We use the DNS services from Cloudflare. They are really stable and DNS changes get propagated fast over the internet. The CDN boosts the speed of our websites and is simple to implement.

The price can be high when hosting multiple websites using Cloudflare.

Our sites were under attack, but Cloudflare CDN got them back up!