Cloudflare - CDN Planet

Company

Cloudflare provides a global CDN with unique performance capabilities and a strong focus on security. The company has a global infrastructure built from the ground up using only next-generation, high-performance equipment—no legacy software or hardware. The result is a CDN that's easy to set up, affordable, and built to continuously adapt and integrate emerging technologies to meet future needs of everyone's Internet properties.
Cloudflare website

Products

Cloudflare has a wide range of performance and security products for businesses of all sizes. CDN, DNS, video streaming and delivery, WAF, Bot Management, and more. Cloudflare also has solutions for remote working teams and building serverless applications.

View the table below for more insight into Cloudflare products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.

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= Sort of/partially
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= Unknown

Product
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ...
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB)
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing?
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video	Stream
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization	Image Resizing, Mirage, Polish
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain	DNS
WAFWeb Application Firewall	Cloud Web Application Firewall
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this.	DDoS Protection
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers	Workers

Network

Cloudflare has datacenters on all continents. Their network of 250+ POPs continues includes 20+ POPs in mainland China.
Cloudflare network map , China delivery

Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country.
Locations marked with ^* are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.

Region	POPs	Locations
North America	46	Ashburn - Atlanta - Boston - Buffalo - Charlotte - Chicago - Columbus - Dallas - Denver - Detroit - Honolulu - Houston - Indianapolis - Jacksonville - Kansas City - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Mcallen - Memphis - Miami - Minneapolis - Montgomery - Nashville - Newark - Norfolk - Omaha - Philadelphia - Phoenix - Pittsburgh - Portland - Richmond - Sacramento - Salt Lake City - San Diego - San Jose - Seattle - St. Louis - Tallahassee - Tampa Calgary - Montreal - Ottawa - Saskatoon - Toronto - Vancouver - Winnipeg
Latin America	38	Buenos Aires - Cordoba - Neuquen Americana - Belém - Belo Horizonte - Blumenau - Brasília - Caçador - Campinas - Curitiba - Florianópolis - Fortaleza - Itajaí - Porto Alegre - Ribeirão Preto - Rio de Janeiro - Salvador - São Paulo - Sorocaba Arica - Valparaíso Bogotá - Medellin San José Willemstad Guayaquil - Quito St George's Guatemala City Tegucigalpa Port-Au-Prince Mexico City - Queretaro Panama City Lima Asuncion Paramaribo
Europe	43	Vienna Brussels Sofia Geneva - Zurich Nicosia Prague Berlin - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Munich Copenhagen Talinn Barcelona - Madrid Helsinki Marseille - Paris Edinburgh - London - Manchester Athens - Thessaloniki Zagreb Budapest Cork - Dublin Reykjavík Milan - Palermo - Rome Luxembourg City Riga Amsterdam Oslo Warsaw Lisbon Bucharest Belgrade Gothenburg - Stockholm Vilnius
Russia & CIS	7	Yerevan Baku Tbilisi Chișinău Moscow - St. Petersburg Kiev
Asia excl. China	37	Chittagong - Dhaka - Jashore Bandar Seri Begawan Thimphu Hong Kong Osaka - Tokyo Vientiane Bangalore - Chennai - Hyderabad - Kolkata - Mumbai - Nagpur - New Delhi Jakarta Phnom Penh Seoul Colombo Yangon Ulaanbaatar Macau Male Johor Bahru - Kuala Lumpur Kathmandu Cebu City - Manila Islamabad - Karachi - Lahore Singapore Bangkok Taipei Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh
China	17	Partnership with JD Cloud; China POPs are part of the global network
Oceania	9	Adelaide - Brisbane - Canberra - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney Guam Noumea Auckland
Middle-East	12	Dubai Manama Tel Aviv Baghdad Amman Kuwait City Beirut Muscat Doha Ramallah Riyadh Istanbul
Africa	19	Luanda Djibouti Cairo Nairobi - Mombasa Monrovia Casablanca Antananarivo Port Louis Maputo Lagos Sainte-Marie Kigali Dakar Tunis Dar es Salaam Cape Town - Durban - Johannesburg

Pricing

Cloudflare charges for content delivery at flat monthly rates: you never pay for GBs or requests. The cheapest plan is free 'for people with personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical'. The Pro and Business plans are $20/month/domain and $200/month/domain, respectively. Cloudflare has many paid add-ons, like Dedicated SSL Certificates, Load Balancing, Argo Smart Routing, and Rate Limiting. Enterprise plans have custom pricing.
Cloudflare pricing, Compare features

Pricing & contract duration
Minimum contract term	None
Minimum monthly costs	$0
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	None
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	$0
APAC traffic (low volume)	$0
LATAM traffic (low volume)	$0

Features

Cloudflare announced many new features related to content delivery speed during their 2021 SpeedWeek, including Improving Origin Performance for Everyone with Orpheus and Tiered Cache, Argo 2.0: Smart Routing Learns New Tricks and Data at Cloudflare just got a lot faster: Announcing Live-updating Analytics and Instant Logs

View the tables below for more insight into the features Cloudflare supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.

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= Sort of/partially
= No
= Extra costs
= Unknown

Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	Instant
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Global Anycast network
HTTP/2
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	Resend from origin, or compress on edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP and HTTPS
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?	Can be an IP address
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP	Tiered Cache, included in all paid plans
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin
Cache control - CDN caching	Page rules for overriding caching headers
Cache control - client caching
Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble	Only 'stale while revalidate'
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	~ 5 seconds
Purge - capabilities	Purge per file and purge all
Analytics	Web analytics, threats and more. Live-updating for paying customers
Log files	Only for Enterprise customers, instantly available
API	Purge, analytics, configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net	SNI
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate	More info
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN
Token authentication	More info
Geo blocking	Access Rules
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content	Possible with Workers
IP white/blacklisting	Access Rules

Support

The level of support varies per price plan. Free users get 'Email only support with median response time of 13 hours'. Response times improve at higher plans. Only Enterprise customers get phone support.

Customer support
Documentation	Yes, public. Cloudflare Community.
Humans	Email support for all. Phone only for Enterprise customers

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