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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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Kevin M.

IT Systems Team Lead

Entertainment

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/7/2016

"CDN and Web Application Firewall"

5/5

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

It is incredibly easy to setup. They manage your DNS, and have an easy to use interface. The API is also a nice bonus add. The web application firewall works great on blocking attacks. We have saved so much bandwidth since switching our website to them. The CDN was invisible to us - it cached our images, javascript and css for us. They also have great third part add-ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Logging can be hard to search through, the reports and analytics are also sparse. The only way to upload multiple custom SSL certificates is with the enterprise version. Without the API its hard to clear the cache for certain images or files. Other then that it is a solid product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Great product and would recommend it to other IT professionals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Web Application Firewall and content delivery. It met both of those needs very well for us, protecting us and saving us bandwidth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/7/2016

"Plug n' Play solution for a TON of web dev problems"

4.5/5

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

Once I experienced the pleasure of having a dedicated layer to dealing with external threats and bots, as well as optimizing asset delivery in a way that used to be a huge hassle during the build process, it's pretty tough to go back. CloudFlare is one such a service, and uses it's position between the client and your servers to deal with a ton of issues.

Their threat detection layer is great for WordPress installations, and other packaged systems that are popular targets for bots. Watching the analytics screen as threats are detected and blocked is very satisfying, and definitely helps with sleep at night.

Their optimization features are pretty fine-grained and powerful. It's nice to be able to serve an audio or image file directly from a server, only to have Cloudflare compress and distribute it to its edge servers, so that my server barely even gets hit, and my users all get the best experience possible. It's so much nicer for the application code to not have to consider delivery problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Getting CloudFlare to play nice with S3 Buckets is a little bit tricky; it requires some naming conventions and configuration options that are not trivial to change once you've set them up. Since I didn't anticipate this when I set up my S3 buckets (4 years ago), I decided it wasn't worth it to jump through all the hoops required to make the change, so I still use Amazon's CloudFront for that problem.

Unfortunate, since CloudFront simply doesn't provide some of the cool compression features that CloudFlare does. I'm left handling that at the application level for my S3 assets.

Some of their page rules are close to - but not exactly - what I want. I wish some of them were more customizable, without upgrading to their much more expensive enterprise plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Make sure you have a staging environment to test out on, and give yourself plenty of time to catch all the weirdness that can occur when making a major DNS change. Especially pay attention to your email and MX records when turning on CloudFlare.

It helps if you can send email directly from your root domain (as opposed to mail.mydomain.com). Things got a little weird for us when we were serving from a subdomain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Optimized delivery of images, CSS, JavaScript, and other assets. Cacheing, threat detection and deterrent, CDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Delimer G.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/22/2016

"Supercharging websites with CloudFlare"

4.5/5

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

Cloudflare is a simple cdn solution for any website. It speeds things up and protects you agaisnt attackers, it's smart and very handy specially when using it from a cpanel (Because you litteraly only have to push a button) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

There are very few things to dislike but minor server failure (in our case) but it does not keep us from not using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Give it a try it's definaly worth using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

DDos protection is very hepful because as i said before you are protected with the click of a button. It's also nice for caching so it takes a huge load out of our servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen T.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/7/2016

"Low cost easy to setup CDN"

4/5

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

Incredibly fast and easy setup makes Cloudflare's CDN an amazing value. Their DDOS protection is icing on the cake. Very solid customer service in my experience as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

The user interface can be unintuitive at times. Updating the caches can take too long sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eduardo S.

Web Programmer

Wholesale

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/9/2016

"CDN Made Easy with CloudFlare"

4.5/5

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

It's the most easy to set up CDN if you administrate a cPanel, You are just one click away from DDos protection, content caching and worldwide delivery. You can't go wrong with cloudflare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Some claim that DDos protection waiting time affects UX, and that may be true, but sometimes it's worth the sacrifice if you don't have your own way of protecting against attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Definitely give it a try, if you are new to the cdn world, CloudFlare is the right site to start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Site protection, content delivery, web caching and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anthony d.

Senior Account Manager

Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/1/2016

"CDN with really great support"

5/5

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

Cloud Flare is above all else, a community. It really does feel like that and it shines through in their support and resources that they have available. The best part is that their pricing structure is super simple, no weird tiers or anything like that to worry about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I wish I had access to DDOS protection without having to pay the $200 a month. I'm on the basic plan and the jump in price to the next plan was a little high for me to swallow, but its a minor complaint since for an actual business, $200 is nothing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Cloud Flare is great in its simplicity. What I really think is great about it is that its a learning tool as well as something that helps protect you. Having insight ont he kind of traffic that's coming to my site is invaluable. I think another great feature is how they handle pricing. It's VERY simple which I love. Sometimes I do feel like its a bit of a downfall though, I wish they had sort of an ala carte option. I wish I could for example pay for multi user access but not the phone support or the dedicated engineer without having to sign up for the enterprise plan, but that's the only option they have available if that makes sense. Ultimately though the solution that they offer is great and really can't be beaten by anything else I've seen on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveed M.

I.T Helpdesk Technician

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/31/2016

"2 Words... Reliable & Stress Free "

5/5

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

The one important factor for my clients that I solely depend on is reliability. I for one, have yet to experience a negative performance coming from CloudFlare. One of my clients run a photography website which requires a lot of image downloading and such. A lot of these files end up being uploaded in big file sizes to retain the image quality at such high resolutions. CloudFlare does a good job performing CDN tasks and actually gives me a piece of mind knowing that important content are being handled in the right hands and people with slow access can still be a part of our website without any unfair compromises. That being said, I greatly appreciate the caching feature that it offers because there have been times where our host does go down at rare times but the website is still accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

There is only one thing that I find negative about Cloudflare is that you cannot use your own name servers. Other than that, I personally do not have any complaints about Cloudflare's service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris G.

Director of Marketing & Product Design

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/7/2016

"Cloudflare is cheap and easy to set up!"

3.5/5

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

The set up is quick and friendly, I definitely prefer Cloudflare's cleaner interface to other CDN dashboards which seem cluttered by comparison. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Figuring out the differences in service levels takes a little digging, the tiers could be more clearly explained during the sign-up flow as opposed to just being on the marketing page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Definitely worth trying! The set up is so quick and streamlined you can have it working as fast as it takes your DNS servers to propogate! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I want to ensure my website stays up 100% of the time. I utilize caching and DDoS prevention. The free SSL is a real boon too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Design

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/8/2016

"Great product for automatic and free TLS, Bandwidth Reduction, and edge caching"

5/5

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

Cloudflare provides one of the best edge caching networks currently available at price tiers for both individuals looking to reduce their monthly hosting costs and for companies looking to make their web applications faster. Additionally, Cloudflare provides free TLS certificates for use with your site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare is effectively a performing one of the largest MITM attacks in the history of the internet. My primary concern with Cloudflare is that if they so choose to, or were compelled to, they could retrieve huge amounts of sensitive data from their customers, including passwords and other form data. While I highly recommend using Cloudflare for static assets, the fact that Cloudflare can intercept sensitive information is worrying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

I highly recommend Cloudflare to companies and individuals looking to reduce their monthly bandwidth consumption and to get deep insight into how and where their assets are being delivered to. Coupled with other analytics, Cloudflare can give you a very good idea how your site is performing in multiple regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Bandwidth reduction, free TLS certificates, performance enhancements with edge caching static assets closer to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/14/2016

"I have been working with CloudFlare for 4 years, with about 15 wepages"

4/5

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

Price, it's the best option for the money you pay.

Nice security features: ddos protection, application firewall and a reputation engine that check if you are a human when accessing from a bad karma network.

Caching works pretty well, and saves some traffic.

Free HTTPS support is a great deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

It's not as fast as it used to be in the beginning.

Some more traffic information (traffic captures) will be a nice feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Try free version, and if you need any extra functions considere to upgrade to a payed version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are a tiny ISP, but we have some big customers using a lot of bandwith and receiving attacks every day. Cloudflare is helping us to save a lot of bandwith and CPU with an extra protection to our webservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.