CloudFlare vs Incapsula vs MaxCDN

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MaxCDN

Stacks1.6K

Followers553

Votes100

CloudFlare

Stacks77.2K

Followers23.1K

Votes1.8K

Incapsula

Stacks1.3K

Followers72

Votes5

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Francesco

CTO at ORDR.menu

Dec 1, 2021

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I don't think I have registered a domain in the last 10 years that hasn't been linked to CloudFlare within the first 2 hours from registration.

The benefits you get from even the free version of CloudFlare are amazing. From day 0:

30/80% of bandwidth savings thanks to their CDN
Origin IP address protection
Managed SSL

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Detailed Comparison

MaxCDN	CloudFlare	Incapsula
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.	Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.	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.
We Make You Fast- With our fast-growing network of multiple PoP locations in all parts of the globe, we mirror your content and deliver it to the neared location to your visitors. It isn't just our network that is fast, but with our state-of-art hardware, fast RAM and SSD storage, content is served at lightning fast speeds.;We Have Your Back- To ensure that you do not have any downtime, we have deployed redundant networks and intelligent routing that ensures selecting an alternative route if a network pathway is down.;We Help You Rank- Using MaxCDN will help you improve your website speed, and since this is now a ranking factor used by Google and other search engines for deciding search results, deploying MaxCDN will help you rank better, giving you more traffic.;We Help You Track- Our flexible and configurable reporting tool will allow you to track bandwidth usage, cache hits and multiple other parameters on an overall as well as per zone-basis.;HTTP Referrer Protection to prevent hot-linking, customizable caching of query strings, and the ability to use a custom robot.txt are supported.;MaxCDN also supports SSL with instant SSL setup of shared, custom, as well as wildcard SSL and other SSL-related features	CDN;WAF (Web Application Firewall);DDOS Protection;	Website Security and WAF; Unmatched web application security experience, enhanced by real-time big data analytics, enables Incapsula to provide best-of-breed security to the world's businesses. DDoS Protection; Combining a robust network backbone and industry-acclaimed traffic inspection solutions, Incapsula provides protection against all application, network, and protocol-based DDoS attacks. CDN; Incapsula’s CDN is a global network of data centers that deliver Full Site Acceleration through intelligent caching and content optimization tools. Load Balancing; Incapsula's Layer 7 Load Balancing & Failover service provides an enterprise-grade cloud-based solution for a healthy network.
Statistics
Stacks 1.6K	Stacks 77.2K	Stacks 1.3K
Followers 553	Followers 23.1K	Followers 72
Votes 100	Votes 1.8K	Votes 5
Pros & Cons
Pros 47 Easy setup 33 Speed to my clients 15 Great service & Customer Support 5 Shared and Affordable SSL	Pros 426 Easy setup, great cdn 278 Free ssl 200 Easy setup 191 Security 181 Ssl Cons 2 No support for SSHFP records 2 Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits	Pros 5 Best of them
Integrations
WordPress New Relic	CodeGuard Google Analytics GoSquared Clicky UserVoice SnapEngage Blitz Pingdom	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to MaxCDN, CloudFlare, Incapsula?

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.

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.

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.

jsDelivr

jsDelivr is a free CDN for open source developers, with advanced features for javascript projects with access to NPM and Github It uses multiple CDN providers, resulting in the best possible uptime and performance.

Moovweb XDN

All-in-one platform to develop, deploy, preview, experiment on, monitor, and run your frontend.

Limelight CDN

Whether it’s your website, mobile applications, videos, music, software, games, or APIs, your content needs to reach customers quickly, reliably, and securely. It provides the capacity, coverage, and performance to cost-effectively deliver a better experience for you and your customers.

cdnjs

Everyone loves the Google CDN? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host it all - JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc! Powered by CloudFlare.

Statically

A free, fast, & modern CDN for open source projects, WordPress, images, and any static assets.

Cloudflare CDN

A CDN is a distributed network of servers that provides several advantages for a web site: Cached content: By caching web site content, It helps improve page load speeds, reduce bandwidth usage, and reduce CPU usage on the server.