#1 most frequent
United States of America
46.5%2,919,972 installations of 6,284,776
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Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.
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Who Buys & Uses Cloudflare
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.3%461,090 installations of 6,284,776
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.6%290,840 installations of 6,284,776
Partner and reseller
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am a partner manager for Cloudflare and I work at an IT consultancy and Systems Integration company group that takes care of working on our customer's systems.
We have been using and reccomending Cloudflare to our customers and have made proposals in the past for names such as [...], [...] Italy and others and we have also guided our customers to use the Cloudflare solutions managed by the vendors directly (shopify, salesforce commerce cloud).
The use case is mainly e-commerce solutions but we also have had security and DNS focused use cases
We have been using and reccomending Cloudflare to our customers and have made proposals in the past for names such as [...], [...] Italy and others and we have also guided our customers to use the Cloudflare solutions managed by the vendors directly (shopify, salesforce commerce cloud).
The use case is mainly e-commerce solutions but we also have had security and DNS focused use cases
Pros
- Bot Management
- Web Optimization
- DNS management
Cons
- Partner journey
- Partner Portal
- Enterprise quoting
Return on Investment
- Saved engineering time for us and our customers
- Fended off Bot and Scraping on our customer's website
Alternatives Considered
Akamai, 11:11 Solutions for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
Other Software Used
Akamai, 11:11 Solutions for AWS, Google Cloud CDN
As good as advertised
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it as our main public DNS host. We have several public facing services, hundreds of domains, and they all are hosted here.
Pros
- Fast
- Secure
- Trusted
Cons
- Clarity in pricing
- More control over the human check
Return on Investment
- Peace of mind
- Less errors
Alternatives Considered
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
Other Software Used
ConnectWise Automate, Microsoft Teams, Proxmox VE
Cloudflare secure and connects you anywhere
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cloudflare gives us peace of mind knowing that our application are protected by security products from Cloudflare that is prove by hundreds of organizations.
Pros
- Threat protection from Cloudflare is second to none because of the vast ecosystem Cloudflare is running. Cloudflare handles billions of internet traffic therefore you can rely on the intelligence it gathers.
Cons
- Probably they can deploy their solution to emerging markets so it's accessible to the countries.
Return on Investment
- ROI is knowing that the applications are secured and users are able to access the internet application without having to worry about threats and attack that could take cause cybersecurity incidents.
Alternatives Considered
GoDaddy
Other Software Used
AWS CloudTrail
An essential for me
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
For the main use case, we use Cloudflare as our DNS manager and main proxy for the most important domains and subdomains.
For secondary cases we use it to build reverse proxies for some "embedded" apps and to handle specific use cases like sitemap generation, connecting to GEO monitors and others
For secondary cases we use it to build reverse proxies for some "embedded" apps and to handle specific use cases like sitemap generation, connecting to GEO monitors and others
Pros
- DNS Management
- DDoS prevention
- Low latency implementations
Cons
- Interacting with logs usually requires setting up an extraction, doing simple queries on them could be out-of-the-box
- AI crawlers/bots monitoring can also use a better UX and allow for better drill downs
- It could have better tutorials for things like storage and workers
Return on Investment
- Has being a key factor to stop possible attacks or malicious requests
- Has saved engineering time when mitigating attacks in a fast way
- Has helped reducing engineering time needed to build custom apps without using a subdomain
Other Software Used
Akamai CDN, Amazon CloudFront
Cloudflare is a rocket in the field of web security and speed
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Cloudflare to mitigate risk, as a DNS provider, domain registrar and a Content Delivery Network. Those are the main services that we see no competitor offering compared to Cloudflare, their service is top of the line. All 200+ websites we maintain run through their DNS and other services.
Pros
- DNS checking upon transfers, easy DNS setup
- The best in class DNS config menu
- Risk mitigation and DDOS protection
- Cheap registrar for global TLD's
Cons
- Login speed – they use their own security during login, but I know for a fact that those can be implemented in a way that let's customers log in faster thay they do it themselves
- Sometimes I cannot find the DNS section in the menu, there are two similar views which get confused
- More country-level TLD's could be available
Return on Investment
- No longer suffering from DDOS attacks
- Easy and quick setup
- Free or very cheap to use
Other Software Used
LiveChat, Vultr, Zoho Mail
