Since I'm managing security tools and focusing on email security, Cloudflare mainly helps me take care of DNS records that are related to email security, such as SPF, DMARC, and DKIM. That's the main scope of my interest there. I'm monitoring those records, checking if somebody has altered them, and gathering evidence if needed to warn them not to do that anymore.

Cloudflare is a great product with many useful features. A colleague of mine is leveraging the API to get all the records periodically. We're gathering them to review if everything is set up properly without the need for manual review. I appreciate the additional details about the statistics since the DKIM enablement process requires visibility over whether the DKIM keys are being used and if there were any queries against them. The statistics part lets me briefly validate if the DKIM record is in use because over time, the records stop being used and aren't cleaned up because nobody requested that.

The reporting and auditing tools are important in the use cases I mentioned earlier. There are many features I do not configure but know exist, such as web access firewall to set up accesses to certain DNS records. We were also using the Workers part of Cloudflare to share data from Cloudflare to an external app called Salt, which helped us understand where our API endpoints are in our estate. Based on that, we got information about endpoint locations and unusual API queries.

It simplifies management because you can create domain groups and associate them to countries, allowing them to manage them independently. It helps me understand which country might be responsible for specific domains. It's a great product because it's scalable, has great coverage, and is mature with good defenses against DDoS attacks.

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I only implement the DNS for customers, mainly focusing on the government in Mexico and online platforms in fintech. My customers tell me the DNS is very fast.

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We are resellers of Cloudflare, and we work with the entire technology stack. Cloudflare serves as a single pane of glass for functionalities such as performance, security, and bot management. View full review »

In Cloudflare, we utilize their DNS and DDoS protection services. All incoming traffic to our server passes through the Cloudflare network. However, we face challenges when it comes to handling legitimate DDoS attacks. These attacks are well-crafted and mimic genuine requests to our publicly facing web pages. Despite Cloudflare's scoring mechanism, there are concerns about the effectiveness in blocking such attacks, as the traffic still reaches our infrastructure directly. Cloudflare recently introduced a new solution for Captcha, but enabling it poses challenges. Some customers are unhappy with Captcha, and modern AI-based DDoS tools can even bypass Captcha, further complicating the situation.

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I use Cloudflare for legacy websites that I need to protect because they're very vulnerable or to secure a client's critical websites. We will implement it after a review or if the website has gotten a poor grade on one of those online checks to see if the security meets the minimum requirements. 

Usually, after I show them their website is vulnerable, I get them to sign up immediately. For me, it's more of a delta suspender as a security measure. I find that many web developers do a poor job of updating their websites and keeping all the security modules.

Cloudflare has a server, and you point your DNS there. From there, you either enable the passthrough or use their full proxy. When you use their full proxy, you get all the features. If you're only doing the DNS, it's just a basic DNS server. Most people don't use it just for DNS; they use it for proxying their websites. You can proxy other services as well, but I've only used it for web applications on different ports.

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In my company, Cloudflare's PoC phase is going on, and so it is not an active contract we have had with them, but just basic experience is what I have with DDoS protection. I basically use Cloudflare for DDoS protection. My company recently tested the tool for its DDoS protection capabilities.

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We subscribed to Cloudflare for cloud-based services, and we are planning to explore its additional features as it aligns with our organizational needs.

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I use Cloudflare primarily for protecting a web application firewall.

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Cloudflare serves as both a Content Delivery Network and a security system. When integrated into the software, it optimizes content loading speeds, ensuring users access content swiftly. Additionally, Cloudflare safeguards websites from various cyber threats, providing security. 

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We typically use it to safeguard websites, especially web applications.

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We use the solution to personalize content and suggestions for cloud environment and database administration.

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We launched the application on the WLP engine. Our website hosts various images, media files, and other external files. We use Cloudflare to ensure faster website delivery.

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I had one design that I did, and it was related to Cloudflare API Gateway. Anything that comes in the front-end URL was basically something to deal with Cloudflare API gateway. Based on separations required in Cloudflare DNS, I set the traffic manager and then manage areas, like configuration, DDoS, and all such related areas. The aforementioned area helps manage the traffic that comes in, the load of the application, how you want to secure access and authentication, and then have the authorization.

In Cloudflare DNS, I use all the service modules the tool offers. The use cases attached to the solution can be related to areas like performance checks, protection, security modules, scalability, and allocation frequency of checking DNS.

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We used the solution mostly as a DNS registry. I was the director of IT, and we had dozens of web assets, websites, and domain names. Instead of hosting the domain names with our content host, I would redirect pretty much all of them through Cloudflare to mitigate DDoS attacks and provide some resiliency. Our content host was largely WordPress based and backed by AWS. It was my go-to DNS registry for domain name verification or email security because we didn't run one on-premise. So Cloudflare was my DNS registry in effect.

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We use Cloudflare for security and delivery.

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When I was in Singapore, I used Cloudflare for DNS management, but when I started at Yoma Bank, I started using the application gateway routing and firewall features. 

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I use the solution for DNS management. 

What I do is every domain we have has some web resources available. Instead of sending everything directly to my web server, what we do is send all the DNS requests for that domain to Cloudflare. It is DNS security enabled to defend those websites from attacks. 

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Cloudflare DNS is the primary DNS resolver for our domains. We are using it for CD.

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We use the solution for all our products hosted on Azure.

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We use Cloudflare for our DNS service. 

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So primarily, we use Cloudflare DNS for DDoS protection.

We can patch other requests to a particular page to a certain extent. Performance-wise, there isn't a big issue with using it. So it has excellent feedback, and it's used in our public meetings. Also, we're able to manage all SIP platforms with Cloudflare DNS.

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We monitor traffic on Cloudflare, and we have some applications that we download on Cloudflare. We have ten to twenty gigs per country.

Our customers are residential ISP customers with high traffic because of Google apps, Amazon network peering, and Direct TV, so we use Cloudflare for the customers. For example, we announce all traffic or customer traffic to the BDP station, and Cloudflare works by caching the content, and the servers send the content to our clients.

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Cloudflare is typically a firewall. There are several editions available, such as the free edition.

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The product helps to create DNS records and connect Cloudflare to the original server. You can also do load balancing configuration. I work with SaaS solutions. 

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I use Cloudflare to secure my own websites and servers since I use the proxy functionality to hide my website/server IP. Also, I like to use Cloudflare DNS manager. I think it's simple and easy to use.

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We primarily use Cloudflare DNS as a content delivery network (CDN) and for its free DNS service. Additionally, it provides us with web application firewall (WAF) control, caching control, and security measures against bot attacks. These features are readily available, and that's why we use Cloudflare.

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Cloudflare is mostly a CDN service plus DDoS protection, but they are now offering services like cloud object storage, which AWS under S3. Cloudflare provides a cheaper alternative. They also have zero trust and load-balancing services. 

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Cloudflare is used for service protection. We use this solution as a managed service for our end user customers, such as banking users for protection.

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Our company provides the solution to customers who need website load balancing or DDoS protection. Customers with minimal traffic use the Business Plan and customers with a huge amount of traffic use the Enterprise Plan. 

We currently have thirty customers on the Business Plan and three customers on the Enterprise Plan. 

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The first use case was to administer the main domain of the organization where I worked.

We have the entire registration process for the main domain and its subdomains, and we create web application firewall (WAF) and load balancer rules.

We did a major MX migration from Google to Microsoft, and doing that with Cloudflare has given us immense security.

This domain also started to visualize improper accesses from other countries and monitor where the main accesses came from.

We made some blocks of administrator sites that only be accessed by a specific IP.

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I use it for my private work network and Office 365 network for both DNS and access through Cloudflare.

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We use it for DNS load balancing and WAF. 

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We are using Cloudflare for the CDN for our applications. We deployed the solution as SaaS.

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We use Cloudflare DNS for websites when our clients want to have good protection. We can filter any traffic before sending it to their web page.

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Our primary use case would be as an immediate wrapper-type security solution as opposed to other solutions which put an in-point monitor on a workstation. I'm the VP of our company and director of IT.

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We are an IT consulting company, we provide solutions to our customers. We implement the solutions for our customers. Some of our customers use CloudFlare, some of them are using  Imperva and Palo Alto.

Our customers use this solution for any web traffic, mostly GCP or to AWS cloud as a backend.

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We primarily use the solution for security purposes. We use the product for theft and DDoS protection.

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We primarily provide the solution to our clients. 

It offers DDoS protection, WAF is available, and CDN services are there. You can log the IP address countrywide and it optimizes the content for you.

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We are a reseller of CDN solutions and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers.

I also use Cloudflare for various websites. It is a content delivery platform.

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We use this solution for security.

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My primary use for the Cloudflare service is for load balancing. I also use the product to manage the connection to my web server's backend.

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I just switched to Cloudflare as my domain registrar. That led me to use their CDN service, and I will probably use them for SSL when that is available. 

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In addition to a reliable and easy to use a DNS service, Cloudflare enables us to host websites on hardware in-house, by protecting us against DDoS attacks as well as from our slightly unreliable ISP. 

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I use this for DNS for many of my former clients and personal sites. When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers. 

The second major use case is as a CDN where I will push logic to the edge for caching and redirects.

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I work as the Senior SEO Strategist on a very small in-house team of digital marketers for Lakeview Health, a drug and alcohol rehab. Upon starting my role, one of my first tasks was migrating our websites to a new web hosting provider so that we could take ownership of them. With all our sites developed in WordPress, I decided on hosting with WP Engine which recommended Cloudflare in the setup process. 

In the past, I worked in environments where the developers and IT team managed the websites, so I admit that there are gaps of knowledge in my understanding of how the internet works. Using Cloudflare made the process of migrating much easier and gave me the satisfaction of knowing we’d receive enhanced security features, alongside a reputable CDN, simple DNS hosting, and the many other solutions Cloudflare offers.

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For DDOS mitigation.

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Our customers use the web application firewall and Zero Trust predominantly. 

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