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Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is a software-as-a-service hosted front-end transparent proxy designed to be put in front of any website to block attacks of any size and type, and offer integrated DNS and CDN services.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Online
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
3.2 / 5 Avg rating (13)
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Features

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  1.  DDoS Protection
  2.  Web Application Firewall
  3.  DNS Proxy
  4.  CDN
  5.  DoS protection
  6.  Dynamic DNS
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  Two-factor Authentication
  9.  FIDO U2F (2FA) support
  10.  Firewall
  11.  Multi CDN
  12.  Reverse Proxy
  13.  Free SSL
  14.  DNS Caching
  15.  Supports SSL Certificates
  16.  DNS over HTTPS
  17.  Dedicated Server Hosting

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  • thesuncitywitch and Shojimeguro liked Cloudflare
    1 day ago
  • Shojimeguro reviewed Cloudflare  
    18 days ago

    offer free plan for zero trust protection, no bandwidth or speed limits, the limit is 50 seats for free plan which is plenty for personal uses

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    danielkorolev added Cloudflare as alternative to StormWall DDoS Protection
    2 months ago
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  • braky added FIDO U2F (2FA) support as a feature to Cloudflare
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Shoji
Apr 12, 2025
0

offer free plan for zero trust protection, no bandwidth or speed limits, the limit is 50 seats for free plan which is plenty for personal uses

Top Negative Comment
Francewhoa
Dec 9, 2019
7

Summary

Popular. But risk of censorship.

Strength

Popular global content delivery network (CDN)

Challenge

Both Cloudflare owner Matthew Prince and the Cloudflare administration, have an history of censoring people and organizations with views they disagree with. In other words, if Cloudflare disagree with your personal views, it is risky that they will censor you. In turn, your visitors will not be able to access your content.

Of course Cloudflare are really free to do business or not do business with anyone to their liking. While at the same time, if someone use a website owned by Cloudflare to make a call for violence, does that make Cloudflare themselves calling for violence, anti-semitism, neo-nazy? Of course not. Because the user's views and her/his subject matter and contents thereof, such as, but not limited to, text, media, or otherwise, do not necessarily reflect the views of the Cloudflare administration. How about the same thing the other way around for Cloudflare's clients?

Source

https://archive.md/MBIbB#selection-672.0-672.3https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/8chan-website-remains-unavailable-as-another-network-provider-cuts-ties-after-el-paso-shooting-1.4536939

Disclaimer

• I strongly believe that diversity is a strength not a weakness. Thanks you for being you. • I disagree with calls for violence by any user on any platform • I am not affiliated with 8ch/8kun or its users

kusarebaita
Nov 30, 2024
0

This thing is not solving any problems it supposed to, the protection it gives to the sites is bogus. On the other hand, the frustration people face every day from being blocked off a site is very much real. Thank you, Cloudflare, for ruining the internet and centralizing it in the claws of the cynical, greedy big corpo moguls. Whoever invented you obviously does not like human beings at all. https://git.fuwafuwa.moe/cypherpunks/stop_cloudflare

Dino C
Mar 21, 2024
0

Cloudflare is a must if you intend on having a homelab, or just any server or app that you intend on opening to the internet.

As a sys admin and networking engineer, my life has been 600% easier just because of Cloudflare.

You can register a domain, protect it against DDoS attacks and you can even use DDNS if you don't have a static IP, Cloudflare APIs are pretty strong and there are loads of templates within Portainer that you can use for many different appliances.

All in all this is a must have even if you intend on running a single small website and best part is, they don't even charge you for all that. Yes you can pay for extra premium features but it is still in a coffe price range :D

10/10

Try it or suffer your own way ;Đ

Ayylienhunter
Mar 18, 2020
4

Fastest public DNS provider for the consumer

Does wonders for website owners

HOWEVER - they have a VERY hypocritical love for censorship. They have voluntarily chosen to block access to multiple sites run by trolls and alleged right-wing extremists and yet they still host the websites that promote joining ISIL and discussions about killing white people

Tien Dung Dao
Nov 1, 2019
-2

Awesome services, thanks so much

mekineer
Mar 29, 2019
0

If I ever see a Cloudflare challenge again it will be too soon.

TBayAreaPat
Sep 12, 2024

Understood.. At the same time, it's worth noting that Cloudflare gives the website owner control of how much challenging to do

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What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the Cloudflare community, its web traffic is routed through Cloudflare's intelligent global network. Cloudflare will automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. Cloudflare will also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: Cloudflare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

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Cloudflare information

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    US flagCloudflare
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $20 and $200 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.2 (13 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German

Our users have written 10 comments and reviews about Cloudflare, and it has gotten 143 likes

Cloudflare was added to AlternativeTo by Flare on Feb 10, 2012 and this page was last updated Jan 16, 2025.