Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and edge compute through Workers. It sits in front of a large fraction of the web as a security and performance layer.
Pros
- Massive edge network. Content and compute run close to users worldwide. 0
- Strong security. Built-in DDoS protection, WAF, and bot mitigation. 0
- Edge compute. Workers run code at the edge with fast cold starts. 0
- Generous free tier. CDN, DNS, and basic protection cost nothing to start. 0
Cons
- Ecosystem lock-in. Workers, KV, and R2 tie architecture to Cloudflare. 0
- Debugging edge. Distributed edge behavior is hard to reproduce locally. 0
- Opaque incidents. Rare global outages ripple across many sites at once. 0
- Feature sprawl. The fast-growing product surface can overwhelm. 0