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CloudFlare vs imgix: What are the differences?

CloudFlare: The Web Performance & Security Company. Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet; imgix: Real-time image resizing service and CDN. imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Resize, crop, and edit images simply by changing their URLs.

CloudFlare belongs to "Content Delivery Network" category of the tech stack, while imgix can be primarily classified under "Image Processing and Management".

Some of the features offered by CloudFlare are:

CDN
WAF (Web Application Firewall)
DDOS Protection

On the other hand, imgix provides the following key features:

Process Images - Resize, crop, and composite multiple images simply by changing their URLs.
Optimize Images - Change output formats, device-pixel ratios, and chroma subsampling rates.
Make Images Responsive - Easily integrate imgix into the latest HTML5 responsive image standards without reprocessing your entire image library.

"Easy setup, great cdn" is the top reason why over 398 developers like CloudFlare, while over 23 developers mention "Image processing on demand" as the leading cause for choosing imgix.

According to the StackShare community, CloudFlare has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2325 company stacks & 726 developers stacks; compared to imgix, which is listed in 55 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

Pros of CloudFlare

Pros of imgix

407
Easy setup, great cdn
251
Free ssl
189
Easy setup
180
Security
161
Ssl
89
Great cdn
73
Optimizer
63
Simple
40
Great UI
23
Great js cdn
9
DNS Analytics
8
AutoMinify
6
Apps
6
Rocket Loader
6
Easy
5
IPv6 "One Click"
4
Cheapest SSL
3
HTTP/2 Support
3
Asynchronous resource loading
3
Fantastic CDN service
3
SPDY
3
API
3
DNSSEC
3
Ipv6
2
Free GeoIP
2
Easy Use
2
Global Load Balancing
2
Amazing performance
1
SSHFP
1
Performance
0
Nice DNS
0
Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else

25
Image processing on demand
22
Easy setup
16
Reduce Development Costs
15
Smart Cropping
13
Efficient
10
Insanely Fast
9
Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters
8
Easy to understand pricing
7
Professional Features and Options
4
Excellent Face Detection
4
Lightyears better than ImageMagick
3
S3 as source
2
Great for Dynamic Compositing
2
Scales to your company's needs

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Cons of CloudFlare

Cons of imgix

1
No support for SSHFP records

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What is CloudFlare?

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

What is imgix?

imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Resize, crop, and edit images simply by changing their URLs.

What companies use CloudFlare?

What companies use imgix?

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What are some alternatives to CloudFlare and imgix?

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

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

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.

Netlify

Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

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.

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News about CloudFlare

It’s Hard To Change The Keys To The Internet And It Involves Destroying HSM’s

(blog.cloudflare.com)

Feb 6, 2018

How we made our page-load optimisations even faster

(blog.cloudflare.com)

Feb 2, 2018

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