Cloudflare

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

• CTO: John Graham-Cumming

• Pricing: Cloudflare offers free tier with no credit/debit card required. Plans: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#overview
  • Cloudflare Business plan: WAF
• Sign in: Apple, email (just email verification, no additional info required)

Features:

• DNS
• CDN, Proxy
• DDoS protection
• Spectrum
• Argo
• 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.

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

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, purge cache
• CDN, Multi CDN: AWS CloudFront, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door az cdn, KeyCDN, Akamai, Gcore, Fastly, coin.host, EDNS Client Subnet, cache

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