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Cloudflare

Delivers SaaS transparent proxy to shield websites, integrating dynamic DNS, global CDN, and web application firewall; blocks DDoS and targeted attacks, optimizes traffic for speed, reduces server load, analyzes threats, supports flexible deployment, and caching features.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Features

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

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  • fanpino commented on Cloudflare

    I like Cloudflare, it's what sits in front of pretty much every one of our domains for DNS and CDN, plus free managed SSL on a couple of subdomains where our origin can't do ACME HTTP-01 (a firewall issue on our end, not theirs). Tunnel has also saved us from opening inbound ports on a couple of internal tools. My one real complaint is the dashboard UX for zone-level settings can be a maze when you're managing a dozen-plus domains - a lot of clicking between zones for things that feel like they...

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  • BlinnerSocial reviewed Cloudflare  

    Awesome service to host images on your tech stack. The freemium level is very generous.

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Cloudflare is praised for improving website speed, security, offering free SSL, DDoS protection, and a generous free plan for zero trust solutions. Many users recommend it for both personal and professional use due to its ease of setup and value. However, criticisms center on access issues for site visitors, the inconvenience of Cloudflare challenges, and concerns about content censorship and centralization. Opinions remain sharply divided on its impact and policies.
Top Positive Comment
Shoji VR
2

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

flowerfield

There is bandwidth threshholds after which their sales team contacts you. You just haven't hit them yet.

Shoji VR

@flowerfield : may i know how much the bandwidth limit? i already used TBs of bandwidth so far and it still working without issues

Top Negative Comment
Francewhoa
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-672.0-672.3 • https://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

Hamze Zare
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I like Cloudflare, it's what sits in front of pretty much every one of our domains for DNS and CDN, plus free managed SSL on a couple of subdomains where our origin can't do ACME HTTP-01 (a firewall issue on our end, not theirs). Tunnel has also saved us from opening inbound ports on a couple of internal tools. My one real complaint is the dashboard UX for zone-level settings can be a maze when you're managing a dozen-plus domains - a lot of clicking between zones for things that feel like they should be bulk-editable.

Mark Sloboda
0

Awesome service to host images on your tech stack. The freemium level is very generous.

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Date Calx
1

using the Cloudflare since long and it's amazing making website fast and secure.

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Online Calculator
1

This is the best server making your website secure and fast.

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kusarebaita
1

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

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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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Our users have written 14 comments and reviews about Cloudflare, and it has gotten 165 likes

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