Cloudflare

wikipedia:Cloudflare (2009, IPO 2019 Russell 1000) NET. Crunchbase

• CTO: John Graham-Cumming

• Pricing:
  • Free tier: no credit/debit card required. 5 WAF rules, Ethereum gateway
  • Plans : Free, pro, business, enterprise.
  • Cloudflare Business plan: WAF
• Sign in:
  • Apple, email (just email verification, no additional info required)
  • SSO for Enterprise plan

Features

• CDN, Proxy
• DNS
• DDoS protection
• Spectrum
• Argo smart routing
• WAF: 5 rules in free tier
• Jamstack Javascript, API and Markup
• Certificates: By default, Cloudflare Universal SSL certificates only cover your apex/root domain and one level of subdomain.
• Cloudflare Web3: IPFS gateway, Ethereum Gateway
• API Shield
• Cloudflare Health Checks

Partial (CNAME) setup only available in Business plan, not included in Free or Pro. Cloudflare requires to delegate your NS to Cloudflare.

Criticism

• Cloudflare took down our website after trying…, 2024

Timeline

• March 2022 Introducing SSH command logging service

Related terms

• WAF
• cfssl Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit
• Lisbon
• Baillie Gifford & Co.
• Venrock
• LulzSec
• Matthew Prince
• Cloudflare Access
• Cloudflare One
• Zscaler
• https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4
• 1.1.1.1, ashton.ns.cloudflare.com, romina.ns.cloudflare.com
• Terraform AWS CloudFront: provider aws_cloudfront_distribution, aws_cloudfront_origin_access_identity, aws_cloudfront_origin_access_control, Terraform module: cloudfront
• IP ranges https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/

See also

• cloudflared [ access login | --help
• Cloudflare, Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Radar, Zaraz, Cloudflare WARP, Cloudflare Access, cloudflared, IPFS Gateway, DNSLink, Cloudflare R2, Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare WAF, Advanced Certificate Manager, Cloudflare, cache analytics, Cloudflare Tunnel, Spectrum, Web3, Cloudflare Argo Smart Routing, Under Attack Mode, Cloudflare Bot fight mode, Cloudflare API Shield, Magic Transit
• CDN, Multi CDN: AWS CloudFront, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door az cdn, KeyCDN, Akamai, Gcore, Fastly, coin.host, EDNS Client Subnet

https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/ethereum-gateway/

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#overview

https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/partial-setup/

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website/comments