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
Vaibhav M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2024
I love Cloudflare user interface and the pricing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
DNS control system which is easy and more secure to manage all domain records from one place. It has the new domain registration module which helps one to register and manage domains more faster within cloudflare without using any third party application of software
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloudflare is easy for Devops team to use and deploy applications since the tool support a variety of programming languages compared to other security cloud tools. I like the SASE NETWORKING which is more secure and faster with any kind of website application. It can easily connect to any application, device and network without technical knowledge
What do you dislike most about this product?
The tool is for programmers and hence requires one to have technical skills to use cloudflare which can be expensive to hire someone to deploy the software. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) for internet traffic which prevents phishing, ransomware and other internet risks is to too hard to use especially when you want to create a report
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cloudflare is safe, pricey and easy to use and I would recommend the tool
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Ajeet K.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2024
Secures any website at a fair pricing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
Every logging session to cloudflare comes with an email notification which includes even the IP address of the login, This has made cloudflare to be best secure tool for CDN, website security and cloud computing. Also what makes cloudflare to be unique is that, it support several programming languages so any developer of any skill can use this tool to develop and secure websites and applications
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloudflare has AL/ML powered threat intelligence that can help to mitigate any risk from unknown threats at a fair pricing and the customer care team responds to technical questions faster through email and on live chat when you are a subscribed member.
What do you dislike most about this product?
You will need to have some technical skills to use other features of cloudflare like Zero networking and building application on Cloudflare requires one to be a developer or have knowledge of coding which can turn to be more expensive if hiring an engineer to do all the implementations.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cloudflare is fast and secure and supports applications from several programming languages and hence, I would recommend it
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Caring
Rajat R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2024
I am confident with Cloudflare
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
The provision of Free SSL CERTIFICATES by cloudflare makes this product a professional and exclusive one. Also the pricing of Cloudflare is far cheaper than any other provider who are more expensive to use their solutions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloudflare have friendly API that are very easy to configure to thwart DDos attack on any website and web application and it has a scalable connectivity across all locations. I also like the user interface of cloudflare which is easy to understand to utilize on the even when you are connected to a smaller screen device
What do you dislike most about this product?
They recently introduced domain registering as a service however, they have very limited top level domains compared to other tools, and building an Application on Cloudflare requires one to have basic coding skills
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Yes, I would recommend Cloudflare because the tool is easy to use and does not cost a lot of money yet provides more features to secure the website
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Caring
- Saves Time
