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CloudFlare
ByCloudflare, Inc.Cloudflare, Inc.

CloudFlare

#1in CDN
Discussions42
Followers23.1k
OverviewDiscussions42

What is CloudFlare?

Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.

CloudFlare is a tool in the CDN category of a tech stack.

Key Features

CDNWAF (Web Application Firewall)DDOS Protection

CloudFlare Pros & Cons

Pros of CloudFlare

  • ✓Easy setup, great cdn
  • ✓Free ssl
  • ✓Easy setup
  • ✓Security
  • ✓Ssl
  • ✓Great cdn
  • ✓Optimizer
  • ✓Simple
  • ✓Great UI
  • ✓Great js cdn

Cons of CloudFlare

  • ✗Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits
  • ✗No support for SSHFP records

CloudFlare Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to CloudFlare?

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.

Akamai

Akamai

If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology, so you can focus on driving your business faster forward.

MaxCDN

MaxCDN

The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.

Incapsula

Incapsula

Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.

Fastly

Fastly

Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.

KeyCDN

KeyCDN

KeyCDN offers super fast and secure content delivery for minimal loading time. In addition to the CDN, it also offers advanced image processing and many other features such as live logs and Let's Encrypt SSL.

CloudFlare Integrations

Blitz, Clicky, SnapEngage, UserVoice, CodeGuard and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with CloudFlare. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with CloudFlare.

Blitz
Blitz
Clicky
Clicky
SnapEngage
SnapEngage
UserVoice
UserVoice
CodeGuard
CodeGuard
Authy
Authy
StopTheHacker
StopTheHacker
GoSquared
GoSquared
Kocho
Kocho
cdnjs
cdnjs
Deployer
Deployer
OctoDNS
OctoDNS

CloudFlare Discussions

Discover why developers choose CloudFlare. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Johnny Bell
Johnny Bell

Software Engineer

Feb 25, 2019

Needs adviceonAmazon S3Amazon S3Amazon CloudFrontAmazon CloudFrontCloudFlareCloudFlare

I recently moved my portfolio to Amazon S3 and I needed a new way to cache and SSL my site as Amazon S3 does not come with this right out of the box. I tried Amazon CloudFront as I was already on Amazon S3 I thought this would be super easy and straight forward to setup... It was not, I was unable to get this working even though I followed all the online steps and even reached out for help to Amazon.

I'd used CloudFlare in the past, and thought let me see if I can set up CloudFlare on an Amazon S3 bucket. The setup for this was so basic and easy... I had it setup with caching and SSL within 5 minutes, and it was 100% free.

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Johnny Bell
Johnny Bell

Software Engineer

Jan 27, 2019

Needs adviceonGitHubGitHubNetlifyNetlifyAmazon S3Amazon S3

When I first built my portfolio I used GitHub for the source control and deployed directly to Netlify on a push to master. This was a perfect setup, I didn't need any knowledge about @{#DevOps}|topic:null| or anything, it was all just done for me.

One of the issues I had with Netlify was I wanted to #gzip my JavaScript files, I had this setup in my #Webpack file, however Netlify didn't offer an easy way to set this.

Over the weekend I decided I wanted to know more about how @{#DevOps}|topic:null| worked so I decided to switch from Netlify to Amazon S3. Instead of creating any #Git Webhooks I decided to use Buddy for my pipeline and to run commands. Buddy is a fantastic tool, very easy to setup builds, copying the files to my Amazon S3 bucket, then running some #AWS console commands to set the content-encoding of the JavaScript files. - Buddy is also free if you only have a few pipelines, so I didn't need to pay anything 🤙🏻.

When I made these changes I also wanted to monitor my code, and make sure I was keeping up with the best practices so I implemented Code Climate to look over my code and tell me where there code smells, issues, and other issues I've been super happy with it so far, on the free tier so its also free.

I did plan on using Amazon CloudFront for my SSL and cacheing, however it was overly complex to setup and it costs money. So I decided to go with the free tier of CloudFlare and it is amazing, best choice I've made for caching / SSL in a long time.

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Kelvin Jones
Kelvin Jones

Co-founder at bright machine

Mar 17, 2015

Needs adviceonCloudFlareCloudFlare

Great for performance and security. Now offering free SSL for modern browsers, how could we not love CF? CloudFlare

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Benjamin Cane
Benjamin Cane

Feb 14, 2015

Needs adviceonCloudFlareCloudFlare

Hosts our DNS, load balances our traffic, and provides CDN capabilities. CloudFlare

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Chesley Brown
Chesley Brown

Lead Programmer at RentChek

Dec 14, 2014

Needs adviceonCloudFlareCloudFlare

Provides our CDN for hosting our front-end Angular powered interface. CloudFlare

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