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Lena Chornovol
Germany
5 apr. 2019
Good cloud hosting. At the free rate, everything works fine and there is everything you need. The statistics is quite a powerful tool. There is some limitation - in free accounts it is updated once every 24 hours, in pro - every 15 minutes. It analyzes both visitors and search bots and displays how many requests and how much traffic the server helped to compress. Their protection is not as good as they advertise it. Only tariffs from Enterprise can fully protect against DDoS, i.e. $ 200 / month. All that is less, there is no real protection against DDos, except for the hope that since the IP is hidden, it may be lucky and the attacker will not be able to kick direct fire over IP. All the files on server has been cached. So, the parameters of the last modified type are given to their server, and this is plus.
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Olivia Dela Paz
Philippines
24 may 2019
Was working as a cPanel admin and most of my clients uses cloudflare so I got interested on it. First, I thought they offer regular hosting like others. But when I start using it, I realized that they more on cloud hosting and offers free CDN for your existing site.
Basically, you need to have an existing site first. Its like their optimizing it or in lei-mans term, they will make it load faster. Cloudflare is good especially if you have site that loads huge number of images, some videos and games. Out of curiosity, I have also checked some of online streaming sites ( popular one) and saw that their using cloudflare. But if you're not into optimization or not in to technical things when it comes to internet, better get regular hosting. Though, cloudflare is good for heavy sites.
I love using it anyway.
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Mihajlo Milenovic
Serbia
14 june 2019
Cloudflare offers CDN, protection from DDoS, dns resolution, and they are very good at all those stuff. They do not offer actual Web Hosting, you need a cloud server or hosting provider to host you site first, and then you can add it to CloudFlare content delivery network, which is in layman terms a copy of your site in every major region of the world, so that for example people (visitors) from Europe hit server in Frankfurt and people from America hit server in New York. That enables all users around the world to have low latency and high speed, something you would not have if the site was hosted on one server at one place in the world. User from far away would have higher latency in that case. Anyways, I digress...
I can recommend CloudFlare to everyone having a site that needs better performance and CDN.
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Ivan Marin
Croatia
27 june 2019
I would recommend Cloudflare to anyone in need of quick (and free!) performance boost to their website. Cloudflare is not a hosting but is one of the best CDN solutions out there. CDN stands for content delivery network, and if you don't know what that is and why would you need it, you can find out more here: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/what-is-a-cdn/
Why one of the best? Well, it is a pretty good CDN, no mistake about it, but the selling point for most clients is that you can get their basic plan for free, and for most of my customers free plan is all they are likely to ever need. With the free plan you get an excellent CDN service, great and easy-to-use DNS management service, DDoS protection, some very good optimization tools and many more, all that for unlimited traffic on your websites, and you can have any number of free plans active at the same time!
Cloudflare also has a basic interface to monitor your web statistics - it won't replace the functionality of Google Analytics, not by a long shot, but it's free, useful and very easy to use even by an absolute beginner.
If you're looking to have some other functionalities, like boosting your website's speed even more with Railgun, Polish and Mirage (pretty neat services, check them out!), full-fledged web protection and custom SSL certificate, you might want to check out their paid plans. They are pricey, but if your website or SaaS is the cornerstone of your business, in my opinion it's worth the cost.
All in all, to sum it up: I definitely recommend using Cloudflare!
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Trevor Smith
United Kingdom
7 sept. 2019
Cloudflare is a good content delivery network. I have been using this since its inception. They started as a simple accelerator services provider to multiple datacenter based load balancing content delivery network.
Free plan is sufficient for most website owners who are just starting out. It was also the first CDN service provider to use free origin pull ssl certificate and cloudflare based SSL certificate (shared). Which offers good SSL encryption for websites.
People using cheap or low quality web hosting can use cloudflare free plan to accelerate their website, secure it and make its available to the world most of the time. The most datacenters are reliable and good although these years and trust their CDN.
Cloudflare CDN is most cost effective way to secure the login pages, speed up loading time and also activate cloudflare apps on the fly. Over the years, I hardly noticed 5 downtimes, which are almost fixed rightaway and they have best uptime for a free CDN Plan compared to their competitors.
For Medium traffic website which receive considerable amount of monthly traffic, paid plans would be suggested to take advantage of advanced features. The setup is straightforward and easy. It can be used by beginners in hosting management to professionals. Lots of support is available on their website for those who want to DIY troubleshooting.
The best part is any changes done through cloudflare can be always reverted back simply by switching your DNS to server dns with your domain registrar. Although advanced content distribution networks exists, they come with a lot of costs and learning curve. For a normal blogger or small business owner looking for simple and hassle free website acceleration, security and firewall cloudflare is the best choice.
I have always used cloudflare for all my website I hosted for my clients and my personal websites as well. The company is reliable and does things what they are good at. I would highly recommend this service for any website owner looking for a simple CDN.
CloudFlare is providing very reliable CND service. I am personally using their service for almost 2 years. They have both free and paid plans for all kinds of use scenarios. When it comes to protecting a server from initial bad attacks, CloudFlare comes to mind. They have recently started selling domains and those are fairly prices too! Their documentation is also very comprehensive. I didn't need to use their support, so really can not speak for it, but I would highly recommend CloudFlare to anyone.
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Viktor
Macedonia
25 feb. 2020
I haven't used their other services except for their Cloudflare CDN. It is a must-have for every site that has traffic globally. Their network is quite big and it spans in more than 200 cities.
They offer 3 plans which are Free, Pro and Business. I have used the Free and Pro plans only. The free plan is more than enough for a simple and starter website but the pro plan has its smart firewall that comes in handy if you are under heavy DDoS attacks.
Keep in mind that in order to have custom SSL you will have to get their Business plan which costs 200$ per month.
I haven't used their support so I can't comment on that.
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Sudip Sengupta
United Kingdom
27 feb. 2020
We use CloudFlare for CDN of our image rich ecommerce website. Though we have been pretty satisfied with CloudFlare's services, however pricing is one aspect that continues to pinch us being a small enterprise. Also occasionally we have noticed Error 5xx, which completely blocks usage of the website for external users - this remains a critical topic which we believe is quite serious especially from a standpoint when you are using CloudFlare's service to get a fast site, rather at occasion it pushes your site to an outage.
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Kate Seaman
United States
15 july 2020
I love that Cloudflare has a really great free hosting plan for small sites like personal blogs or hobbies or small start-ups trying the service out. It includes a shared SSL certificate and what's great is there's no limitation on bandwidth or site visitors. They make it really easy to upgrade services and their website and dashboard is intuitive and easy to navigate. You can also use Cloudflare's optimizer for sites hosted elsewhere by moving just the DNS record to Cloudflare (changing the nameservers). This is also free, but you need to be comfortable working with DNS records directly to do this otherwise you may break your website. If you have problems with Cloudflare hosting services, you can submit a ticket, and response times can vary, but they eventually get to you.
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Foivos Oikonomou
Greece
19 june 2021
Cloudflare is, hands down, one of the best CDN services out there!
Their free plan is good enough for most of the sites out there. However, if you buy a subscription they offer a lot more features with a very low monthly cost.
Their free CDN service is a great solution for website optimization & firewall and honestly every website should use it. If you throw in a subscription you will offered more website optimization and image compression options. They also offer a Wordpress plugin with auto-optimization features.
Honestly, I can't think of a reason as to why someone wouldn't recommend their services.
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