Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network services, cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, wide area network services, reverse proxies, Domain Name Service, and ICANN-accredited domain…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2009
- Category
- cloud_infrastructure
- Problem solved
- Cloudflare was created to address the growing challenges of web performance, security threats (like DDoS attacks and malicious bots), and website reliability for small to medium-sized businesses, which historically lacked the resources to implement enterprise-grade solutions. It aimed to make the internet faster, safer, and more reliable for everyone by abstracting complex infrastructure.
- Platforms
- Cloudflare Global Network (its own proprietary infrastructure), web, Web (as a service consumed by websites/applications), ios
Related technologies
Notable users
- Notion
- GitLab
- Discord
- More than 20% of the web by number of sites [1, 2]
- Coinbase
- Shopify