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Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.
Web-based and on-premise cybersecurity solution that helps IT professionals with threat detection, API integration, documentation, reporting, billing, automation, web content filtering and more.
I like that the website’s performance is improved with reguards to the speed with Cloudflare’s CND. The speed of the websiteis increased with the optimizating feature like Brotli compression for SSL.
Cloudflare was slowing down my websites, causing conflicts and the typical "Error 502 - Bad gateway" error. When I stopped using Cloudflare, I never had this issue anymore.
Cloudflare provides our websites for CDN, DDOS security and SSL for free. Its very helpful for our websites reach globally with good speed and secure.
Setting up DNS servers can be difficult and backtracking from a mistake can be very time-consuming unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Overall experience with cloudflare is amazing because it provides so much useful things in their both free & paid membership.
My last, very frustrating experience has ruined the positive experience of previous years. I had to move the site back to the original hosting losing a significant amount of time.
Great set of tools from a reliable and world leading company, with a great community and a full range of documentation.
Also every now and then my site looks odd. I clear the cache on site and browser and it still looks odd.
Great feature set, solid performance, easy admin control, fair pricing. Gives us a way to do advance content filtering at a very affordable price.
That's about the worst thing I can think of to say about our relationship with DNSFilter.
We needed a software to add web protection and this fit perfectly. We’ve only used the Windows deployments so far but I’m happy to know that we can expand to various other setups if needed.
Missing some important features, such as a local resolver and immediate alerts upon blocking threats.
The response speed of DNS resolution and the reliability is better than the local ISP. DNS resolution affects the user's perception of the internet speed and reliability.
I would not be telling the truth if I would claim there is something is company is doing wrong.
The interface is responsive, reliable and two factor authentication is a godsend. It's never gone down for even a minute in the 5+ years we've been using the service.
In addition, there are options to block threats like cryptomining, malware, phishing, proxies, and others.
Karambir: Hi, my name's Karambir. I'm the CEO of a small company. It's just me actually, and I give CloudFlare a four. I found out about CloudFlare. I don't remember exactly how, but it was either through email or internet search, just about this product that was helpful for managing websites, and handling caching, and 24/7 availability, that kind of thing. I chose CloudFlare because it was free. At the time it seemed to be the only product. It was something I could easily create an account for, and it met the basic needs of a small website, which is just making sure it's available all the time, and reasonably good caching and throughput. It was fairly easy to get started with. CloudFlare, you have to switch over your DNA name servers, so it requires some technical experience, but otherwise, it was fairly easy to get set up. Okay, so if you're considering getting CloudFlare, consider it's really designed for higher end websites, with a lot of users, maybe multiple servers spread around the globe. For a smaller organization or just like a one-off website, it may be more complex than you really need. So it depends on the size of your organization, how much traffic, how much web traffic you have.
Matt: My name is Matt I'm President of a technology company. I give DNSFilter a rating of five, and for reviews like this click below. We focus heavily on the non-profit sector. And so when we were evaluating different vendors, scalability, price, and just what their barriers to entry. What we might mean by that is how many devices have to be in an environment? what's the minimum spend? Those kinds of factors were taken into consideration, and through all of that, DNSFilter was found to have every solution or every option we needed. It was great for the non-profit sector. It got rid of all of the minimums and requirements and the budgets and fit everything into a non-profit budget. So we jumped on board with DNSFilter, ran through all the demos and trials, and they came out with no errors that we could ever find. We chose DNSFilter after we had reviewed their pricing and their minimums and found that everything fit within a non-profit budget. We then took it to the tech team. I was one of the ones who looked at it very first, and I know this goes against all the rules, but I deployed it into a test environment without ever reading any of the instructions and had the entire thing up and running within five minutes. That alone impressed me with how easy and intuitive it was to use. And so when the rest of our team began looking at it, checking more into the more advanced settings, we found that it was still very, very intuitive to use. Our admins could find anything and everything they needed. All the reporting and getting into threat analysis, we were able to find everything we needed without having to spend a lot of time just clicking through a whole bunch of pages and getting lost. We were able to quickly and easily find everything we needed. The integration of DNSFilter was very straightforward. They give you the settings that you need, a couple of DNS settings, as well as everything you need for setting up what's called a roaming client. Very straightforward. Step-by-step, they do not leave you hanging and guessing how to configure a setting or how to deploy an agent. What we had found was existing clients, we had them onboarded within about five minutes for each site, and those who were newer clients, we just easily put the agent into our onboarding procedures, did not slow our technicians down, did not change the amount of time it takes to onboard clients. We found that it integrated very, very nicely. It deploys easily with simple scripts. So we have not found any challenges at this point for deploying DNSFilter. Anybody who's looking to get DNSFilter, I would say jump on it right away. You've got a simple trial that you can use. You can get the entire environment stood up within a matter of minutes and begin your testing. All within a half hour, you can get signed up, have a test environment running, and begin seeing the results. There's no reason not to try out DNSFilter. And I believe that as soon as anybody logs in and sees the platform and see it in action, they'll buy it right away.
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