What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
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92 Likeliness to Recommend
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97 Plan to Renew
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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+95 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Cloudflare?
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Effective Service
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Enablement for Security Teams
Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
Network Sandboxes
Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
Zero Trust
Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
SD-WAN
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS
Data Analytics / BI / AI
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Customization
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Cloudflare Reviews
Sameer K.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Cloudflare is a must have all the websites
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
Cloudflare for DNS & CDN which are a powerful combination with leaders provided from the web server
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloudflare provides content delivery network caching and API connectivity for manual cache clearing of individual items, API rate limiting
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not enough information on data that is being cached and be more detailed for explanation of features
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cloudflare should use as load balancer and server proxy, it has uptime detection and routes traffic to the server
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
- Client Friendly Policies
Rahul U.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Jan 2023
Cloudflare- ultimate Swiss knife for websites
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
Cloudflare manage our internet present starting with DNS routing as well as primary cloud security
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
There is lot of cost reduction and benefit alone justify the usage of cloudflare, dashboards model allows us to easy on/off capabilities and some even offer a free quota to start the experience
What do you dislike most about this product?
DNS speed is not the fastest as compared to some of the other paid alternatives, interface can be sometimes confusing for a new users
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cloudflare has various usecases which it solves well, it can handle all the DNS requirements, protect against bad actors via it's WAF
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Unique Features
- Saves Time
- Respectful
Nitish K.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
Best automated server to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
Cloudflare is best for websites for DNS service, firewall protection, traffic analysis and caching, it also protects us from bot attacks
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It provides CDN and load balancing support, they provides great dashboards that will allow us to get much of the in-demand information right away
What do you dislike most about this product?
It needs to be more functionality in both end point as well as personal endpoint
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cloudflare should ensure that the websites can be found and the implementation really easy
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Caring
- Fair
