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Cloudflare

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Cloudflare FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Cloudflare offer?

Cloudflare has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $20.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Cloudflare?

Cloudflare has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Cloudflare support?

Cloudflare supports the following languages:
English

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Q. Does Cloudflare offer an API?

Yes, Cloudflare has an API available for use.

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Q. What other apps does Cloudflare integrate with?

Cloudflare integrates with the following applications:
SatisMeter, Chaossearch, Crafter CMS, Drupal, Adobe Commerce, Google Analytics 360, Jira, Webflow, Sender, Feedly, Rambox, vBulletin, tawk.to, ProveSource, SiteSpect, Landerlab, Rippling, Userlike, RiskIQ PassiveTotal, Amazon EC2, Backblaze, WordPress, Coralogix, Desktop.com, Crisp, Groove.id, Buddy, Znode, Secureframe, Site Search 360, Joomla, Hostinger, Shopify

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Q. What level of support does Cloudflare offer?

Cloudflare offers the following support options:
24/7 (Live rep), Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, Chat, Phone Support

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Cloudflare product overview

Price starts from

20

Per month

Flat Rate

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare speeds up and accelerates your site by distributing your sites content around the world then delivering it using the fattest pipes and the best protocols. By using HTTP/2 with an SPDY fallback, Cloudflare can deliver content rapidly to your end users. Using 79 datacenters (and growing) around the world, Cloudflare can ensure your content is never too far away from your end user. Through Railgun, Cloudflare can eliminate costly delays caused by the speed of light when distributing dynamic content.

Key benefits of using Cloudflare

Cloudflare protects web traffic transmitted over WebSockets or HTTP, while also offering a DNS hosting service. Cloudflare can mitigate attacks to web applications through protecting your web hosting by routing requests through Cloudflare. Additionally, Cloudflare's extensive network, which spans across 100 cities in 49 countries, means that content can be cached and accelerated at high speed to your end user regardless of server location. By distributing this content over the latest web protocols such as HTTP/2 and SPDY, Cloudflare ensures that web applications are loading and operating at the fastest speeds possible. Cloudflare also offers Content and Image Optimization to enhance speeds across all web properties.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

24/7 (Live rep)
Knowledge Base
Email/Help Desk
Chat
Phone Support

Training options

Live Online
Documentation
Videos
Webinars

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Value for money

4.7

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412

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Cloudflare features

Functionality

4.7

/5

412

Total features

27

12 categories

Most valued features by users

Access Controls/Permissions
Compliance Management
API
Alerts/Notifications
Reporting/Analytics
Real Time Monitoring
Vulnerability Scanning
Activity Monitoring

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Cloudflare users reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

/5

412

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown
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  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.2/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
Cloudflare t is an excellent tool that helps developers with many things such as DNS or SSL certifications. It is very easy to use and some of its tools are free or paid.
I am an absolute fan of Cloudflare because of a few reasons. They offer so much in their freemium plan that it seems too good to be true and to me honestly that has been their best selling point.
All the customers we introduce to Cloudflare are absolutely amazed by how much it improves their website and how well it behaves once behind CDN and solid caching, just by using the free version.
Cons
Only time there has been a problem is when Cloudflare has an outage. Every service has to go down, though.
I dislike how confusing the pricing is. I wish it was more transparent.
I only really had disappointing experiences with Cloudflare.

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Josh C.

Owner

Design, self-employed

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Overall Rating

Best CDN I know of!

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Josh: Hi. My name is Josh. I'm the owner of a web design company. I would give Cloudflare a five. For...

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Greg G.

Operations Fellow

Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

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SSL for Free

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Greg G.: Hey, I'm Greg, I'm a full stack developer. I give CloudFlare a four out of five and for more...

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Michelangelo C.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Best CDN ever

Reviewed 10 months ago

The best CDN ever, really. I have nothing else to say.

Pros

I can only say positive things about Cloudflare: it is fast, very easy to set up, never gives problems, it helps you even when the site temporarily goes out of service, you do not need assistance because you already know that you will not have big problems. All this is free (unless you need some specific options that you will pay dearly)

Cons

I would have only two details to say: When you add the site in Cloudflare, he goes to scan all the possible subdomains and, if he receives the famous answer 200 (so that the page, and consequently the subdomain, exists) he will automatically add it. What does it mean? Some hosting always give a positive answer, even if the subdomain doesn't exist. In this case CF will create hundreds of non-existent DNS records to be deleted one by one (because it does not provide for bulk deletion) Second thing is that unfortunately it does not plan to have dedicated IPs, even in the high paying plans.

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Diego M.

Internet, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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One or the best CDNs!

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

The overall experience with them has been great. It’s not only simple to setup, but also they have a huge documentation library where you can get a lot of information: from them, compatibility with other softwares, best configurations, etc. The results you get by just getting their free plan are more than enough for small-medium companies. Also, they hace more than 150 servers around the world, so the performance results are really great, even comparing with some other paid services.

Cons

Nothing to add here. My overall experience was really good. I never had an issue or had to get in touch with support. When ever I had a doubt, I was able to solve them just by checking their documentation library.

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Senne T.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used other for 1-2 years

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Cloudflare slowed down my sites and caused problems

Reviewed 2 years ago

I never used the paid version of Cloudflare, because I didn't feel like it was worth the money and my experiences with the free version (often included with regular hosting providers, like A2 Hosting). I only really had disappointing experiences with Cloudflare. This is one of the very few negative reviews I've ever written, but I did want to share this as I stopped using Cloudflare years ago, because of this. By the way, I am yet to find a CDN that I'm really happy about, but at least my current CDN doesn't break my site. It does slow it down sometimes though. So there's that.

Pros

Well, I don't really like Cloudflare at all, since its purpose should be to speed up websites, but after years of using it, I found in most occasions (at least for me - based in Europe) it had adverse affects.

Cons

Cloudflare was slowing down my websites, causing conflicts and the typical "Error 502 - Bad gateway" error!! When I stopped using Cloudflare, I never had this issue anymore. And it wasn't just me. Sometimes I come across websites that use Cloudflare, and when I see this error, it brings back bad memories...

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Mohd Nubli B.

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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What an awesome software

Reviewed 4 months ago

Overall Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) and cybersecurity that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites, apps and other internet properties. It offers various services including web acceleration, DNS management and various security services including distributed denial of service attack mitigation, web application firewall, bot mitigation and identity verification services.

Pros

Cloudflare is a high-performance global network. It offers secure and reliable services at competitive prices. In addition it offers powerful WAF and DDoS protection as well as an easy-to-use and user-friendly dashboard. Customizable DNS and caching plus advanced analytics and real-time analytics.

Cons

Caching may cause some website features to not load correctly. Also, the preparation can be complicated in some cases. Customization options are also quite limited, and costs can add up quickly depending on service level and usage.

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Adomako P.

E-Learning, self-employed

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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secure content delivery network for website

Reviewed 2 years ago

My overall experience with Cloudflare is excellent. Have been using Cloudflare for about 4+ years now.

Pros

Offers many types of security and components that can be added to a current site without adjusting code It's great that you can get to a portion of their provisions for nothing and secure your site. Their standard criticism to my email is additionally exceptionally informative of them. Exploring the site is additionally very simple and the subsequent at all times assists clients with connecting consistently with the site

Cons

Nothing to add here. My general experience was great. I never had an issue or needed to reach out to help. At whatever point I had an uncertainty, I had the option to tackle them just by actually taking a look at their documentation library.

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