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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2020-06-25T10:49:16Z
Jun 25, 2020
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.
Senior Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
2020-05-28T06:26:39Z
May 28, 2020
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.
Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
2019-01-15T16:23:00Z
Jan 15, 2019
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.
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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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.
We use the solution to personalize content and suggestions for cloud environment and database administration.
We use Cloudflare for security and delivery.
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.
We use it for DNS load balancing and WAF.
We are using Cloudflare for the CDN for our applications. We deployed the solution as SaaS.
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.
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.
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.
Our customers use the web application firewall and Zero Trust predominantly.
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.
We primarily use the solution for security purposes. We use the product for theft and DDoS protection.
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.
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.
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.
We use this solution for security.
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.
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.
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.