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CloudFlare vs Netlify: 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; Netlify: Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic delpoys from GitHub or Bitbucket. 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.
CloudFlare can be classified as a tool in the "Content Delivery Network" category, while Netlify is grouped under "Static Web Hosting".
Some of the features offered by CloudFlare are:
- CDN
- WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- DDOS Protection
On the other hand, Netlify provides the following key features:
- Global Network
- Global Network
- Instant Cache Validation
"Easy setup, great cdn" is the primary reason why developers consider CloudFlare over the competitors, whereas "Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments" was stated as the key factor in picking Netlify.
Stack Exchange, Lyft, and Udemy are some of the popular companies that use CloudFlare, whereas Netlify is used by Startae, Ratio, and Flat. CloudFlare has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2328 company stacks & 727 developers stacks; compared to Netlify, which is listed in 85 company stacks and 104 developer stacks.
We use Netlify to host static websites.
The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:
- Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
- With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public
In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.
Pros of CloudFlare
- Easy setup, great cdn423
- Free ssl276
- Easy setup199
- Security190
- Ssl180
- Great cdn98
- Optimizer77
- Simple71
- Great UI44
- Great js cdn28
- HTTP/2 Support12
- Apps12
- DNS Analytics12
- AutoMinify12
- Ipv69
- Rocket Loader9
- Easy9
- IPv6 "One Click"8
- DNSSEC7
- Free GeoIP7
- Amazing performance7
- API7
- Cheapest SSL7
- Fantastic CDN service7
- Nice DNS7
- SSHFP7
- Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else6
- SPDY6
- Asynchronous resource loading5
- Easy Use4
- Performance4
- Global Load Balancing4
- Ubuntu4
- CDN3
- Support for SSHFP records2
- Registrar2
- Web31
- HTTPS3/Quic1
Pros of Netlify
- Easy deploy45
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments43
- Free SSL support22
- Super simple deploys22
- Easy Setup and Continous deployments15
- Faster than any other option in the market10
- Free plan for personal websites10
- Deploy previews8
- Free Open Source (Pro) plan6
- Great loop-in material on a blog4
- Analytics4
- Easy to use and great support4
- Great drag and drop functionality3
- Custom domains support3
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments3
- Tech oriented support1
- Supports static site generators1
- Canary Releases (Split Tests)1
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Cons of CloudFlare
- No support for SSHFP records2
- Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits2
Cons of Netlify
- It's expensive7
- Bandwidth limitation1
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