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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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Dmitry K.

Software Engineer

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/7/2016

"This service helps you to put a little bit more reliability on uptime of your project"

4/5

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

Really easy to set up, they provide with analytics even on free plan and give a big range of setting so that you can set everything is a way you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Till this moment I didn't find any disadvantages of using their services. You can always test them using their free plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Try free plan first, see how it works with you, analyse how much traffic did you manage to save by caching, consider how much of server cost would it be for you and then decide whether you need to continue using them or not, you will not lose any money and will be able to analyse how much server resources you can save. They also provide this information for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have a high-load platform which is load balancing on several servers, even though sometimes we get peak loads, so we use different ways of caching. Cloudflare gives a great opportunity to get cached version of your platform even without "touching" your servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/21/2016

"Bit of a Disaster as unable to cancel"

0.5/5

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

Back end functionality Good - Simple to use and set up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

"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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edward C.

Drupal Developer

Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/3/2016

"The fastest and only CDN you'll ever need!"

5/5

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

In today's quick-paced technological world, everything is all about speed. Users in today's world have an attention span of about 3 seconds before they go on with their lives. This is crucial to any organization looking to optimize their website or lower the bounce rates on traffic to their application. In comes CloudFlare CDN. If you are still hosting all your assets -- images, stylesheets, and scripts -- in the same place you're hosting your website, chances are that loading these assets synchronously with the pages on your website is affecting performance (or preventing it from becoming more performant). CloudFlare is easy to use, they provide tons of bandwidth (but, of course, the amount of bandwidth you get also depends on which plan you elect). They offer free, pro, and enterprise domains, so depending on your needs, the options are there. And, on top of that, CloudFlare also offers DDoS protection and other advanced functions for business and enterprise accounts. This is especially important if you are worried about security or attacks on your website. Since a website is the forefront of the company's reputation and offerings, there is no reason why you should not sacrifice those extra few dollars into CloudFlare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

There are very few things i dislike about CloudFlare from all the years that I've used it. One is that CloudFlare does not offer setting wildcard subdomains - as it is not possible yet. Also, there may be a little bit of discrepancies on where the datacenters you've selected actually are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The problem of website efficiency and performance. A lot of today's websites are very heavily loaded with content and fancy styles. CloudFlare is what you need to offset those assets and have your server focus on running the application instead of waiting for things to load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Curtis R.

Solutions Architect

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/2/2016

"Fantastic Introductory Cache/CDN/WAF/DNS"

5/5

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

Cloudflare offers a lot of useful functionality before you even need to dip into their paid offerings. This is genius; it makes it very easy for you to dip your toe in the water and test the realtime DNS tools, high-level WAF capabilities and website performance optimizations/caching. These take all of 5 minutes to get up and running and you can even enable multi-factor authentication via Twilio's Authy service to increase security of your account. Again... all in about 5 minutes; they're not exaggerating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Out of the box, everything works pretty well, but is somewhat basic when compared to more powerful offerings, such as F5 Networks solutions. For small to medium businesses though, the solution is more than adequate and a nice stepping point on a maturity model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If all you do is use it to act as DNS and a website performance optimizer (cache, JS/CSS consoliation), its worth the time to setup. Start with the free tiers and then grow into the paid tiers as needed. When your application starts to grow in popularity definitely take the time to upgrade to a pro plan and ensure your Web Application Firewall is implemented along with your own SSL certs (if you haven't done that from the get-go). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For many of my privately built static and native web apps (JS apps served statically), this is a one stop solution to ensure content is delivered very quickly from cached version as well as ensure that common threats are blocked before even reaching my servers. All without having to worry about the configuration of larger more heavyweight solutions that, frankly, smaller sites often don't need. Along those lines, I no longer need to rely on managing my own DNS servers for these solutions as I simply point my domains to CloudFlare's. This has enabled me to make changes to underlying servers/hosting environements in real time and continue to serve static content during infrequent outtages of app hosting environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

José M V.

Fullstack Developer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/1/2016

"Best DNS service you will find for free"

4.5/5

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

I've used CloudFlare since my Registrar stopped working properly when setting up new Domain's DNSs and haven't looked back!

It comes with a layer of DDoS and Bots protection so you can keep those who try to mess up with your infrastructure away from it with ease!

Also, a big plus. "Auto Minify", decrease filze size of some of your files so your sites load even faster! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

New users into the Hosting / Domains / DNS world can get confused on how to setup their first domain.

There are some features I'd like to have for free, but that's asking for too much, like IP Country Blocking to name something. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If you need to setup a domain and even count with free Abuse (DDoS and Bots) protection, you should give CloudFlare a try. They will deliver what they mean to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Developing sites for Venezuelan clients used to be a pain because poor domain registrar management. Now i can easily point client's domains to CloadFlare and make any kind of change easy and extremely fast in their web app.

I'm really glad i have access to such service for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael G.

Co Founder & iOS Engineer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/30/2016

"Relatively simple set up once you find the right tutorial and great performance when up and running"

3.5/5

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

I really like how quickly it was to set up and get running once I had figured out how to do it. I used it on a SquareSpace site that loaded some very large images. I wasn't happy with the performance of the site until I started using it with CloudFlare. Images loaded a lot quicker, especially once the cache had warmed up. I also though the dashboard was really simple to navigate and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I haven't encountered anything thus far that I dislike. If I had to say something, it would be that it wasn't 100% clear that the CDN was working but after some playing around with the dashboard and running some tests on my sites webpages, I could see the difference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If you are using CloudFlare with SquareSpace, make sure to read the documentation on that specific part of it carefully, otherwise you might take your website offline. Otherwise, I think this is a solid solution if you looking to improve the speed at which content loads on your website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sérgio R.

Oracle Apex Developer

Automotive

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/31/2016

"CloudFlare"

4/5

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

I decided to try cloudflare because it comes with a big variety of tools for website security and performance. Regarding the website security tools I highlight the protection against SQL injection and cross-site scripting. The content caching and global CDN were quite useful tools on the website performance.

But one of the best things of cloudflare was the possibility of doing all these on the cloud without the need to install any extra software or hardware are all over web application.

CloudFlare's performance features help to improve your site's speed. Keeping your website running quickly reduces the chance that we or our customer will get fed up with slow page loads and leave the site before purchasing anything. One of the included website performance features relies on the global content delivery network (CDN). This increases the bandwidth without you needing to add any extra hardware. Since it is global it doesn't matter where your clients are located – they will still receive prompt page loading times.

Another reason why I found this website performance service so useful was the fact that it has automatic static content caching. This can help your site load faster for return customers. They also offer a website preloader which pre-caches our most popular pages and makes load times much faster for our visitors. Along with these two features is another feature that looks at which resources are most used and have them on hand. This reduces the loading time of these pages.

Regarding the costumer service I think it is ok, sometimes the feedback time is quite long, so it is one of the services that could be improved in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

They have fixed major issues have in the past Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ben M.

Marketing Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/31/2016

"Wonder idea that every site, free or not, needs to use!"

5/5

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

You do not realize how important using cloudflare is for new sites!

They have the best DNS management system in the world! With POPs everywhere, updates are done near instant.

They have a spectacular firewall system to block nearly every attack in the book thanks to the huge community they have.

They added SSL support, which means as a free user, you can get free SSL (HTTPS) added to your domain. An extremely useful feature compared to all the other alternative solutions.

Their cache purge is near instant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I really really want to use the business features without paying for them; such as Polish Image Optimization. I understand they have to make money to keep the servers online. So maybe one day I can afford it.

I almost never see the "Always On" feature kick in when my server is down. I am a free user so it's not going to be cached at the same level as a business user, but still would like to see this improved in the future.

I'd like more page rules as well as a free user. Three is hardly enough for setting cache rules on blog and ecommerce sites like I have.

I wish they had a personal plan that would be cheaper than the business plans. Us bloggers don't need a full blown $20/month cost for a site. Just make sure that Polish is included since Bloggers would appreciate that feature!

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Akram Hasan S.

CEO / Volunteer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/5/2016

"Yet the best CDN and Cloud Security"

4.5/5

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

71 Datacenter more then thousands POP, yet the best Cloud Security and CDN have used. Easy to configure, all you have to do change your NameServer to their host and you are good to go. CloudFlare is not only just a CDN who provides contents for faster experience. They has strong DDos protection, blacklist-whitelist management, Port protection, free SSL bad browser detection and many more. Their code minifying is remarkable, supports javascript defer and async. Code optimization and many more, all comes with a very simple management system. Also has many plugins to deploy on your website with few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

As an active user since 2010 I didn't find anything that I disliked about this service. Its a great service allover, wish them best of luck and bring some new technologies to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If you are searching for effective and easy to use CDN with security insurance. Cloudflare always the best decision you can make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

After coming with their service I figured out our website more faster and secure. All those bad bots can't pass CloudFlare cloud security and we are saving a lot of bandwidth every month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seth K.

Lead Web Developer

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/30/2016

"Few Frills, but Free"

4/5

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

Easy to get started and configure. Immediate results can be seen just from getting the boost from geographically diverse CDN endpoints. If you pay for the Business plan, you get extremely solid DDOS protection and good firewalling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Development can be a pain because of aggressive caching. You'll likely want to configure your build tooling to build modules that contain a timestamp or other hashbuster, because CloudFlare's "Development Mode" only stays active for a few hours.

Some of their special features like Mirage and Rocket Loader caused issues with some users of my site, so I turned them off.

Without the $200/month plan, logging is pretty limited.

Although they advertise DDOS protection, I was using their Pro plan and was hit with a DDOS-- they turned CloudFlare off for my site, exposing my site's public IP. There was no opportunity to upgrade or otherwise keep CloudFlare on before my real IP was exposed to the attacker (who promptly switched to DDOSing the real IP, making CloudFlare useless). I had to pay to upgrade to the $200/month Business plan and have my server provider change my public IP, which resulted in a day or so of downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If you are an active DDOS target, you need the $200/month plan, period. No other plans provide DDOS protection of any reasonable sort and CloudFlare will kick you off without warning.

If you simply want to do some caching and perf improvements, it's practically drop-in.

Certain actions are not friction-free, like adding new DNS records (you probably have to add them once at your service provider and again at CloudFlare) but these are low-cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.