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Cloudflare protects and accelerates million of website online using a single change to your DNS by offering CDN functionality and advanced security.

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Founder - Owner

Great set of tools from a reliable and world leading company, with a great community and a full range of documentation.

Chief programming officer at Flyon.app

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.

Service Manager

Only time there has been a problem is when Cloudflare has an outage. Every service has to go down, though.

Manager

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.

Owner

It has great features that I want in a CDN like security, speed and caching. Using just the free features I don't think I need paid features so that is great.

Student

It's fast traffic resolution , easy integration and more importantly the unmatched performance to even the basic users makes it one of my favourite.

Media presenter

Cloud flare offers advanced security to our website and have a good user interface. I like the integration process which only requires updating nameservers.

Section Leader

I dislike how confusing the pricing is. I wish it was more transparent.

The UI/ UX looks nice, and it is pretty easy for one to navigate inside the dashboard. Even the free version is already enough for many.

VP, Director of Finance

Cloudflare seemed to us from the beginning a great investment, full of labor advantages.

Entrepreneur

I only really had disappointing experiences with Cloudflare.

Simple to get going and provide some basic security for a site. Their pricing is agreeable for small businesses that need powerful protection.

Founder & CEO

It takes about five minutes to move a domain over once you get used to the process. You'll immediately start seeing benefits, and minor customization gives you even more benefits.

Director

Needed to organise security for a new website. Cloudflare encrypts your website, and is super easy to use.

There is no reason an IP should be able to send 1TB of bandwidth without a challenge.

Easy to use; clean software; the website it was protecting for me ran very smoothly.

Frontend Developer

Overall, my favorite feature are the email alerts for when a domain's nameservers no longer point to Cloudflare. That allows us to provide invaluable customer service for our own clients.

GoDaddy Website Builder

SiteGround

KeyCDN

Cloudflare has been an invaluable tool to help reduce the attack profile of the websites I run.

Cloudflare is Invaluable!!

We have used Cloudflare for our company and personal websites for over four years without many issues. They have great features and if you are not tech savvy with the installation of SSL Certs or setting up rules this product can help you a lot. Their support can be a bit hit and miss but you usually get a response within 24 hours. We have seen some of the biggest and best brands in the world use Cloudflare and it’s really good how much you get for the price.

Cloudflare is 

months ago i converted all pro subscriptions  to free, this is also neatly indicated in the account that it will change to free on the 27th of the month.... but every month they simply collect and the downgrade is moved one month.

And now that I no longer have 1 active domain, they are now charging a pro subscription for 24x

dirty dirty..........

be aware, the are SCAMMERS

Great online protection tool

I'm solo developer and I protect my clients sites with the Cloudflare.

Excelent for protection

Go to tool for WAF

great software to protect websites. very smooth using it.

superb security for your website!

Overall Cloudflare is great, it sets the industry standard in my opinion which is why it's so popular and widely used.

The Gold Standard of Web Application Firewalls

Best Cloud Provider

Important for websites

Overall, CloudFlare is a tools that is critical to the proper functioning at the company: managing our DNS records, securing connection to our websites and generating analytics reports. 

Secure Domain Registration & Management via CloudFlare

I use Cloudflare for all my websites and recommend to everybody. Even at the free plan it offers enchanted security and and the fastest DNS in the world.

Improved Security With Cloudflare

Crucial network layer tools for security and speed

We are using cloudflare for DNS management, WAF and caching.The product is very easy to useIt is extensively customizableDocumentation is available API is easy to useIntegration is very easyWorkers are available Strong user communityProduct functionality and performanceStrong services expertiseDNS managementCan modify request and response headers

One of the best Product for CDN and Security

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Hugely positive and I've never used it to it's full potential.

Peace of mind

A best option for distrusting and protecting our sites

It promises security and performance.

Amazing for email security

Fast Delivery

Confusing and hard to learn

I use this for my own businesses, as well as employer organization, and would recommend it to my IT friends and colleagues if they also didn't already use it.

Above and Beyond Cloud Security

Overall, Cloudflare has proven to be an exceptional ally in managing and securing our networks. Its robust features, user-friendly interface, and reliable performance make it a go-to tool for network administrators like me. I'm grateful for the peace of mind and enhanced control it brings to our digital infrastructure, allowing us to focus on what truly matters—driving our business forward.

An absolute reliable and capable tool!

Operations Fellow

SSL for Free

Greg G.:                                               Hey, I'm Greg, I'm a full stack developer. I give CloudFlare a four out of five and for more reviews like this click below.
                                                       So, before using CloudFlare we were using a variety of different platforms to sort of solve some of the issues that CloudFlare provides. So the first one was that we were trying to work on our SSL, like, security certificate management. And at the time we were running a WordPress site, it was kind of a new venture and it was what we were using and it was fine, but GoDaddy was our provider and the SSL certificates were just really expensive and sort of confusing to set up, and so we ended up looking elsewhere. CloudFlare seemed to offer the easiest setup and that's what we went with.
                                                       When we chose CloudFlare, there were a few things that really drew our eyes to them. One, on a smaller sense, we were really interested in... This was a platform that was sort of taking on some of the bigger companies out there, but they were doing it in a smaller capacity. So what I mean by that is, is you were getting some of the benefits that you get from a large platform like AWS or something like that, but you get some of the personal attention that you might not assume that you get, unless you're a really high paying customer, elsewhere. On top of that, even if you didn't necessarily get a representative, the sort of community around CloudFlare was pretty good.
                                                       So, that was one thing. And then on top of that, they offered a lot of what we needed on top and then some. Right? So I mentioned earlier that we were interested in some of their security offerings, but they also offered and sort of promoted this idea that we could improve the speed of our website. At the time, we were relatively new to the area, the field, in terms of what we were working with, and that seemed like a great bonus and it ended up working. So, that's what drew us to them.
                                                       So, when we started using CloudFlare it was actually pretty simple. They had us, if I remember correctly, change a few of our name servers, so basically we redirected our traffic through their servers instead, and had our... the end point that we wanted consumers to get to, matched up with theirs. So, what was great, it was really easy to use. Instead of having to install scripts on our website or your new variety of things, there's a chance that we may have had to authenticate that what we were doing was actually ours, with like a really, really simple script. It was by no means a week long overhaul, I think it ended up being, like, three hours, tops. And that was with in-depth checking and also the amount of time that it took to sort of set up on their side. So it was a really good experience. Really, really, really nice.
                                                       Yeah. So if you're thinking about CloudFlare, I think, as with a lot of these companies out there, the benefits you're going to get, you'll see almost immediately, and their free offerings are pretty good. So I'd encourage you to try it out.
                                                       On top of that though, I think when we installed CloudFlare and when I first kind of got involved with them, they were sort of new to the space, right? They were offering things that not many other people were, at least not at the price point and the level of accessibility that they were providing. Now there are other companies that actually make things a bit easier. So I am still a fan of CloudFlare. I think they're really good platform, but for my personal projects, for things that aren't going to be reaching as many people, for things that are just kind of done on the side, I think Netlify and Versatile are two really good options for deploying front-end projects. They offer some of the same features as CloudFlare, but they do it somehow even just a little bit faster.
                                                       And so something to consider, I think all are great. You can't really make a bad option, but those were some things that I keep in mind.

Owner and Developer and Design

Best CDN I know of!

Josh:                                                  Hi. My name is Josh. I'm the owner of a web design company. I would give Cloudflare a five. For more reviews like this click below.
                                                       The only other company I really looked at was Buddy CDN, I believe it was. And the reason I didn't use it is because they didn't have a free portion of their site. So there was no way to actually test it and see how it worked, where Cloudflare had that.
                                                       The reason I chose Cloudflare is as I did quite a bit of research on CDN, I knew I needed a CDN to make my sites faster that I was using. Anytime in the Google speed or any of the other speed tests, you'll see that a CDN is definitely necessary.
                                                       At that point I did some research. I actually saw that they had a free side of their site that you could use that had great features. And then you could go up from there if you needed more. Things I liked about it are that you were able to have a free SSL in it, if you did need. I normally don't, as I have that with my own hosting. But if I work on other people's websites, sometimes they don't have that, and we can get their site little bit better in the SERPs by having an SSL. It's just something you need these days. The other thing is just the CDN and the caching that they allow. The caching, just so you can speed up your site in the CDN, so different people in different countries or areas get to see your site faster.
                                                       And the other thing is they do some security stuff. And so that was definitely a nice feature in there. And the last thing I would say is that the setup is super easy. Basically just go at a site and it'll pull all the information from your current DNS settings. And so you don't have to add all that in manually, and then you just put their DNS or their name servers into your domain registrar, and you're good to go.
                                                       So the integration and getting the Cloudflare set up on any sites, I hadn't done it before obviously when I first started as I hadn't been using any CDNs at that point. It's extremely easy. Basically, you just go up to the top. You have to make an account. You can have unlimited sites that I know of on that account so I can put different customer sites on there. But basically just add the site, it'll look for it. You put the URL in there, it'll look for it. And after it finds it, it finds all the DNS settings that are on it, imports it automatically. So you don't have to go in and put each one in there separately because it would probably take 20 minutes or so per site. And instead of that, you can just let it find everything.
                                                       Then it will basically tell you, you just need to put this name server into your domain registrar and you put it in there and it'll start showing up under Cloudflare and you can test it and make sure that it is connected. And it's super easy to just get a new site up and running in Cloudflare. There's really not much you need to do if you know even a little bit about DNS or your domain registrar. It's super easy to set up even for regular non web designers. Someone who doesn't know about hosting much. So just a great setup.
                                                       Recommendations I would give with it. There's a couple things I would say that you need to either watch out with or know about. There are some speed settings. I think you can do brotli or there's rocket, I believe, or something like that. You need to test sometimes. I usually leave things on standard because those can make your site go haywire a little bit and you need to know a little bit what you're doing, but usually the standard setup is just fine. Every now and then, you'll change the setting on your site or you'll change something on your site and it won't quite show up. You need to then clear the cache at that point of that. Maybe it's clearing the cache on your site as well as at Cloudflare.
                                                       I would just say that it's something you should definitely have. If you don't have a CDN, put one on. They have the free option and that will work for... I don't think I've ever had to actually pay, but there are some really great features if you are wanting to pay and get more, especially on the security end of it. And some of the speed stuff that... Images to compress them on that side. But if you just needed a CDN, it's by far the best way to go. I believe it's unlimited bandwidth. It's really cool that it tells you how much bandwidth you saved. So if your hosting doesn't give have much bandwidth, then you're saving bandwidth right there. And you're not going to have to be as worried about using your bandwidth for the month.
                                                       Like I said, most little sites can go with a free option. But if you have something more complicated, you have a big e-commerce site or something like that. You definitely probably want to go with at least the $20 one per month, just to give you a little more peace of mind and a little more features.

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