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Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Overview

What is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare is the connectivity cloud for the "everywhere world," on a mission to help build a better Internet. We provide a unified platform of networking, security, and developer services delivered from a single, intelligent global network that spans hundreds of cities in over 125 countries. This empowers organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to the world's largest enterprises, to make their employees, applications, and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while significantly reducing complexity and cost. Our comprehensive platform includes: - Advanced Security: Protect your online presence with industry-leading DDoS protection, a robust Web Application Firewall (WAF), Bot mitigation, and API security. Implement Zero Trust security to secure remote access, data, and applications for your entire workforce. - Superior Performance: Accelerate website and application loading times globally with our Content Delivery Network (CDN), intelligent DNS, and smart routing capabilities. Optimize images and deliver dynamic content with unparalleled speed. - Powerful Developer Tools: Empower your developers to build and deploy full-stack applications at the edge using Cloudflare Workers (serverless functions), R2 Storage (object storage without egress fees), and D1 (serverless SQL database). Cloudflare helps connect and protect millions of customers globally, offering the control, visibility, and reliability businesses need to work, develop, and accelerate their operations in today's hyperconnected landscape. Our global network continuously learns and adapts, ensuring your digital assets are always protected and performing at their best.

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Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solutions provide performance, reliability, and security for all of your web applications and APIs, wherever they are hosted and wherever your users are.

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Built for any and every organization. Cloudflare services are easy to integrate and manage, cost effective, and available from a single unified interface — helping even the largest and most specialized organizations reduce IT complexity and take back control of their environment.

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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

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Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Demo - Cloudflare Dashboard

An entire suite of additional performance and security services are provided in addition to caching on the Cloudflare CDN. Traffic stats and site visits are easily accessed from the main dashboard page.

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Demo - Web Content Optimization

Cloudflare provides a variety of additional services to improve the delivery of image and video files.

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Demo - Integrated Security

Keep track of your application's JavaScript dependencies and receive alerts when they change.

Frost & Sullivan talks about why lightning fast content delivery is paramount in today's digital world and how Cloudflare provides solutions to enable organizations to deliver the best user experiences.

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Mimi T.

Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/20/2019

"Great Security, Great CDN"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare is a very great CDN as it protects your site from DDOS attacks, bruteforce, etc, with its firewall features, page rules and hiding your server ip. It also speeds up your website exponentially with its Rocket Loader feature, Global CDN cache, html css js minification and Railgun. It also gives you free SSL which is a good feature without spending a dime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

The maximum file upload is only 100mb for free tier, which is kinda low. But despite that, everything is advantageous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If your site audience is global, then use Cloudflare, to make it optimize globally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Super optimized website for faster loading and good user experience and also security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

De W.

Marketing Assistant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/25/2019

"Use Cloudflare to Speed Up your Website"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare's CDN help boost in speeding up our site to our visitors from wherever they are. With their global cdn servers, it stores our files thus when a visitor visits for example, USA, the nearest cloudflare server will serve our cached files to the visitor, thus also reducing our bandwidth usage.

We also have set cloudflares page rules to cache certain files for the longest time period. We also use their Rocket Loader feature to asynchronously load our javascript files for faster loading.

We also enabled Brotli compression as we are using an SSL for our site, and Brotli compression is faster than gzip on ssl/tls connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

We would like to try their Polish and Mirage feature but the pro plan is not really suitable for the earnings we have right now, so no ROI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Having a CDN solution does help in speeding up your site, especially when you have global visitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Faster website loading and also DDOS protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Violet B.

Senior Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/21/2019

"CDN and DDOS Protection in One!"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Security:

1. Acts as a reverse proxy hiding our site IP address to protect our server from prying eyes.

2. Firewall rules - We can set how to block, deny or allow bots and other users.

3. Page rules - Block certain bots on specific pages.

4. DDOS Protection.

5. Free SSL.

Site Speed Optimization:

1. Offers html, css and js minification.

2. Rocket Loader - asynchronously loads js for faster loading.

3. Brotli Compression for SSL.

CDN:

1. Caches our sites files, serving cache content to our visitors thus reducing our bandwidth and server usage.

2. They have CDN servers around the world in almost all continents, which is excellent for global targeted sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

So far, there is nothing I do not like about Cloudflare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If your site has global reach and needs a CDN, test out Cloudflare.

If not, you could still try it out and check all its benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our site caters globally so we need a CDN to cached our content on other sides of the world and Cloudflare does it well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joey C.

Wordpress Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/25/2019

"Full Of Features Free CDN"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare's Free Plan is packed with features. Speeds up site with html, css, js, minification and its cache. Even has firewall and page rules to protect your site from bots and attacks. Also, comes with a great DNS hosting. Speeds up our site very much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Error 522. I frequently get this when logging in to the site, but it goes away after a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If you are still looking or are already using a CDN I'd recommend you to try out Cloudflare. Its free plan is already feature packed. What more if you are on a paid plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed up our site enormously and minimizes our servers load by caching static files and alos cacheable dynamic files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jazlyn S.

Project Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/27/2019

"Great protection for your TCP and UDP."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Is quite efficient and has proven to be very effective and powerful that has increased the security of my firewalls for DDos, IP and TLS firewalls. It is very efficient in protecting my servers as well as my UDP services keeping them secure even online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Not very good and does not do a good job of accessing corporate networks. Don’t very easily customizable then similar kind of other platforms the updates are not frequently released making this to lack some of the advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Radinko D.

Senior Web Developer

Entertainment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/14/2019

"Website Protection and Faster Website Loading"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I like how Cloudflare combines protection and speed optimization without even setting up all those settings within your website. The process is so simple that you just submit your site to Cloudflare and they will give you a new nameserver to save in your domain nameserver settings to route to their network. After, the nameservers are globally updated, which usually just a few hours or max 48 hours, you are good to go.

I like how Cloudflare acts as a new layer in front of your website, hiding your real server ip from prying eyes, and also protecting your site against ddos attacks. You can further enhance your protection by tinkering with the Firewall Settings within your Cloudflare Dashboard.

Within your Cloudflare dashboard, there is also a page for Speed Optimization, which is a very great feature to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I'd like to try their Railgun feature but its too expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Cloudflare saves your server load as it caches your files to be served to visitors. It also acts as a reverse proxy to hide your servers real ip. Security wise, and speed wise, Cloudflare is a good investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Faster speed loading and DDOS protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert Peter S.

Content Editor

Entertainment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/12/2019

"The Best Content Delivery Network For Your Website"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare is full of features even for the Free Tier and any small to medium website, with global reach, needs to have a CDN and Cloudflare is the best choice.

It is the best choice as it has over 200 CDN servers around the world, that is 200 locations that cached your sites files for faster loading.

Cloudflare also offers optimization features for speeding up your site, like Brotli compression if you use SSL, (which they also offer a Free SSL for your site), minification of html, css and javascript files, and Page Rules, where you can set a certain page, (static works best) to Cache Everything.

Cloudflare also offers one of the best securities any CDN could offer. Firstly, it acts as a Reverse Proxy, which hides your servers real IP address. Secondly, it offers DDOS protection. Lastly, it has a Firewall Rules page where you can further create settings to harden your security.

With this features alone, and to think of it, it is only their Free Tier, you already get too much for your website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I just hope they'd offer Polish for free, (conversion of images to webp, a new image format that is more compressed than jpg and png), as Litespeed already offers webp for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Cloudflare will definitely boost your site speed and harden your security, and they have a Free Plan for you to test it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our site is more secure than ever and it became faster than just settling for the optimization features within our server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jared H.

Web Content Writer

Entertainment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/11/2019

"Speeds Up And Protects Your Website!"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare CDN speeds up your website as it caches your files on all its global servers and when a visitor visits your site, all the files cached from a Cloudflare server nearest from the visitor will be served instead of getting it from your own server. This caching of your sites files also minimizes the use of your sites host which also saves your host from more usage.

Cloudflare also offers speed optimizations such as html, css and js minification. It also has Page Rules where you can cached everything.

You can also protect your site with more configurations using their Firewall feature.

They also offer a Free SSL.

All this, you can get from the Free Plan and usage is unlimited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Their free ssl does not say that your site is registered as your site but it says cloudflare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If you are considering in using a CDN, which is a must these days, use Cloudflare. Their free plan is already full of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Website speed from different locations are good with Cloudflare, unlike when we are still not using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Guiying Y.

Marketing Manager

Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/11/2019

"Best CDN To Protect Your Site"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare is the most popular CDN service today. It protects your site by acting as a reverse proxy thus hiding the real ip of your server. It has a massive global network, around 180 as they advertised, which makes your site load faster globally as it caches most of your sites files.

Cloudflare also has features that no other CDN's have. They have a Rocket Loader feature which speeds up your site by asynchronously loading your javascript. It also has a minification feature to reduce your css, js and html file size for faster loading.

The greatest feature that they have is DDOS protection. A must have for any sites as any hacker who might end up choosing your site for attacks might happen anytime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Based on my experience, I had a hard time setting up my desired settings for the firewall rules and page rules because it took me some time to understand all the settings that they have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Cloudflare is a must have CDN tool, the free plan is already full of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since using Cloudflare, I am more confident that our site is protected from DDOS attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason J.

Web Design & SEO Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/18/2019

"Truly Exceptional CDN"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Absolutely nothing to dislike about Cloudflare. Amazing services for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Read their documentation and the "i" information bubbles. Also, check out their users' forum for solutions and answers to more complex questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.