Cloudflare

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 does not offer streaming media services, but rather caters to the needs of companies who care about (web) security and want to run the whole site through a global CDN.

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

= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Extra costs
= 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
Image OptimizationAutomatic image compression/optimization	Mirage
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

Network

Cloudflare has datacenters on all continents. Their network of 100+ 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 1+ POP in that country.

Region	POPs	Locations
North America	25	Ashburn - Atlanta - Boston - Chicago - Detroit - Dallas - Denver - Kansas City - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Miami - Minneapolis - Nashville - Newark - Omaha - Philadelphia - Phoenix - San Diego - San Jose - Seattle - St. Louis - Tampa Montreal - Toronto - Vancouver
Latin America	8	Buenos Aires Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo Valparaíso Medellin Curaçao Panama City Lima
Europe	29	Vienna Sofia Zurich Prague Berlin - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Munich Copenhagen Barcelona - Madrid Helsinki Marseille - Paris London - Manchester Athens Zagreb Budapest Dublin Milan Amsterdam Oslo Warsaw Lisbon Bucharest Belgrade Stockholm
Russia & CIS	2	Moscow Kiev
Asia, excl China	13	Hong Kong Osaka - Tokyo Chennai - New Delhi - Mumbai Seoul Colombo Kuala Lumpur Manila Singapore Bangkok Taipei
China	20
Oceania	5	Brisbane - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney Auckland
Middle-East	4	Dubai Muscat Doha Kuwait City
Africa	6	Cape Town - Johannesburg Mombasa Luanda Djibouti Cairo

Pricing

Cloudflare charges for content delivery at flat monthly rates: you never pay for GBs or requests. The cheapest plan is free 'for personal websites and blogs'. The Pro and Business plans are $20/month/domain and $200/month/domain, respectively. Some features are paid add-ons, like Dedicated SSL Certificates, Load Balancing, Argo Smart Routing, and Rate Limiting. Enterprise plans are 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

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

= Yes
= 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, 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
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
Log files	Only for Enterprise customers
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
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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