We compared Cloudflare DNS and Quad9 in several parameters based on reviews we have collected from users and you can find our conclusion below:
Based on user feedback, Cloudflare DNS is a highly recommended solution. Users appreciate its easy setup, quick DNS record updates, strong security features, worldwide coverage, scalability, reasonable pricing, compatibility with Office 365, caching ability, and minimal latency. They also value the Cloudflare API for creating distinct environments and updating zone codes. On the other hand, Quad9 is regarded as simple to configure and cost-effective, but it lacks personalized DNS filtering and raises concerns about performance and responsiveness.
"Its most significant benefit to date is the speed with which it refreshes DNS records on the internet once you change it. If you are changing a website or registering a new record, it is very quick."
"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is security."
"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is its global reach and it is always evolving."
"Cloudflare DNS is widely used, and it's good for websites. If we use Cloudflare DNS and update one record, it updates in their office instantly."
"The most valuable features of the solution are performance and security."
"The attacker won't have details since my public IP is anonymous. It offers us good privacy."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Areas like how assessment, discovery, and payload are dealt with and how it all comes into your organization can be considered when trying to make suggestions to Cloudflare for improvements."
"Cloudflare doesn't have a reverse lookup. We can only do a DNS lookup to get the IP address from the hostname. It doesn't work if you want to look up the hostname from an IPA address."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Cloudflare's free plan is limited to 5,000 records for their free plan. They should increase that. For example, if I create a domain called abc.com and a subdomain called a.abc.com, my record count will be two. I can make a maximum of 5,000 subdomains. However, if we use our own DNS hosted on another provider, there is no limit. Their free plan also lacks name server customization."
"The analytics, basically the dashboard, doesn't have much to it."
"Cloudflare should add more documentation and pricing to the cloud version."
"We have noticed multiple instances where Cloudflare falsely indicates that our servers are down, even when there is no actual load on them. This makes it challenging for us to identify the exact issue."
"There might be helpful if there was some web application firewall feature."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
Cloudflare DNS is ranked 1st in Managed DNS with 13 reviews while Quad9 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 2 reviews. Cloudflare DNS is rated 8.6, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Cloudflare DNS writes "A stable, affordable, and easy-to-install product that provides resiliency and protects from threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quad9 writes "No maintenance required, free service, but more free features would help". Cloudflare DNS is most compared with Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Amazon Route 53 and Hurricane Electric Free DNS, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Verisign Public DNS, Neustar UltraDNS and Hurricane Electric Free DNS. See our Cloudflare DNS vs. Quad9 report.
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