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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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Verified User in Civic & Social Organization

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/14/2016

"Possibly the greatest thing I did for my site"

5/5

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

I like the fact that it took me just minutes to set up, even though I was using a horrible web hosting service. Using CloudFlare taught me even more about my website and how to use it to its maximum potential and take advantage of everything that I could with it. I learned a lot just from using this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

There was not really much to dislike to be completely honest. I liked every aspect of the service and thought their pricing was fair, their services were extremely useful, and they offered more than I could imagine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

You absolutely have to give this thing a shot. There are so many great extensions you can add onto the service and there is no cost for most cases. This is an essential to nearly any website in my honest opinion and everyone should implement this. It takes only a few simple and easy-to-follow steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am solving the problem of tracking users that visit the site, keeping the site up in case of a crash, and monitoring the site in ways I did not even imagine before. I had complete control over my website and I felt really comfortable and at ease knowing I had CloudFlare, and I did not even have to spend a cent on it. What an incredible service! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike L.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/8/2016

"Cloudflare is great but requires tweaking to make it just right"

4/5

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

I like that Cloudflare helps increase load time, decrease hack attacks and also has a page for when there is ever a site outage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Initially it was annoying when wanting to make changes to CSS on our sites, but with some tweaking to the settings we got it right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James M.

Partner

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/11/2015

"CloudFlare Saved Our Bacon -- Big Time."

4.5/5

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

Cloudflare was very easy to setup and configure -- which was very important as we were on a tight deadline. We built our new web site on WordPress running on Rackspace. Within a matter of days of going live we were under attack almost constantly with XML RPC DDOS attacks. We could have kept a telnet session open on the Rackspace Server (running Linux) and block each attack at the firewall. However, they were many and we were few, we needed a better solution. Rackspace support mentioned CloudFlare. We took the Wordpress site offline, and signed up for the Business Website plan ($200/month) at CloudFlare. We logged onto Hover and pointed our DNS records to the CloudFlare servers, brought up our Wordpress site and have not had a problem since. It is fast, reasonably priced and easy to set up. They have the tools available for you if you want to get down into the details and build a custom configuration (we've done a little of that). It works so well that we often forget that we own it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

When we first starting using CloudFlare, the Web Application Firewalls configuration panels were burired a little deep within the interface. Recent updates (it's a SAAS based interface -- so the updates just "happen") have addressed most of these issues. In fact, they have really flattened the interface so that you can get to most things in a matter of a few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

If you are building a relatively low-volume web site, and you can live with the default templates -- then consider Wordpress.com or Squarespace. If you are building out a customer web site (or web application for that matter) at a 3rd party company -- like Rackspace -- where you configure and manage your own servers -- then CloudFlare is a great fit. 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 solving our firewall and security problems for our public Wordpress-based web site. We could simply use an all-in-one platform, like Squarespace (and we own companies that use this approach). However, we had the need to have a very custom Wordpress template -- so that put us in the business of hosting and managing our own servers. We use Rackspace extensively in our portfolio, so we built a Linux/Wordpress/PHP/MySQL box to handle our site. Linux has firewall tools that you can use to manage security on your site -- but it requires more time and effort than we have available. CloudFlare provides a bevy of application-specific blocks and filters (including a killer set for Wordpress). We went from getting shut down by hourly attacks to being up and running without interruption for 9+ months. You can really almost "set it and forget it" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dan T.

Digital Marketing Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/8/2016

"Use for all my sites regardless of size"

4.5/5

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

Cloudflare saves me quite a bit of bandwidth whether hosting Wordpress sites, sites in Amazon cloud and traditional hosts. The setup and install is simple and the interface allows me to quickly define what needs to go through cloudflare. The custom page rules also allow me to filter out pages that should not use cloudflare...for example news pages that update regularly. With the features I can compress images and minify js and css with a few clicks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I prefer more in-depth reporting when it comes to what pages/areas of sites are bandwidth hogs, for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Graphic Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/13/2016

"Easy setup and great performance"

4.5/5

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

Cloudflare was integrated with my host which is one of the main reasons I started to use it, but not the reason I continue to use it. I love the easy setup and great performance that it offers. It also has a killer simple design that makes finding what I need a cake walk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

There is nothing that I truly dislike about this service though a major improvement would be more streamlined integration. A solution that would allow me to make changes without logging into my dashboard would be fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jean-Maxime C.

Co-fondateur et directeur technique / Cofounder and technical director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/13/2016

"Easiest way to deliver fast content"

4/5

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

The setup is so easy. Up and running in a few minutes. Also supported by Mediatemple, which make its setup even easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Sometimes slow to updates settings changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Cloudflare is Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our server is in California. Most of our customers are in Montreal. We needed to easily improve server performance and delivery speed. Cloudflare was the easiest way to achieve that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Corey G.

Product Owner

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/19/2015

"Critical caching layer for all"

5/5

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

When running websites, it is critical to have them be fast and reduce risk to vulnerabilities in the software. With CloudFlare, you can do all of this and more. I have many websites with different underlying tech and it is nice to have a layer of protection like CloudFlare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Depending on the software you are using, the caching can be a bit aggressive which requires additional setup to ensure certain endpoints are excluded like admin endpoints. But, this is the nature of the beast too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zane H.

Full Stack Web Developer

Accounting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/8/2016

"Great experience"

5/5

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

I like how you can turn on and off a TLS cert with the click of a button. It makes caching easy, and it's free. I also like how easy it is to manage DNS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

I wish it had domain name hosting. This is the only feature I'm missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/13/2016

"Its fast when I dont notice, but returns 404 on small scaled sites."

3/5

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

Quality product for premium customers. Probably one of the best out there that offers a freemium model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Less efforts to make it faster in rural areas. Its just in comparison to amazon, I actually have seen sites down and the error message of cloudfare. Something like 500 internal server error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare Application Security and Performance:

Sure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I work at an education startup, even though we recently switched to amazon cloud services - I have personally used cloudfare for my own blogs and websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.