Cloudflare Review

Point a domain at it and the free plan hands you a global content network, unmetered denial of service protection, universal certificates and the fastest public resolver anyone measures. That is not a trial. Small sites run on it forever, and the paid steps buy image handling, firewall rules and analytics rather than selling the basics back.

On top sits a developer platform people choose on merit: Workers runs code at the edge in milliseconds, R2 stores objects with no charge for getting them out again, and the queues, storage and durable primitives around them cover a real application without a cloud bill nobody can read. Two things temper it. When this network fails, a startling share of the web fails with it, and the outages of the past year ran long enough to cost businesses money and to restart the argument about how much of the internet should route through one company.

Support below the paid tiers is thin, which is felt hardest on exactly those days. Setup is a nameserver change for the basics and a much steeper climb for everything past them, which is where the middle grade comes from. On value it is close to unbeatable.