Cloudflare feature overview
Time on time I write small shallow notes about various public web services I'm faced. This couple of my notes of this type, for example:
- 2024 year: How to create full list of Google API
- 2021 year: What is Amazon web services (AWS)
- 2021 year: How to build application server based on push notification from Firebase
- 2020 year: My public dockers
- 2019 year: How to protect your business from DDoS attack by Cloudflare WAF.
- 2019 year: How to publish VS project templates to Github and Visual Studio Marketplace
- 2018 year: Tune dedicated server in Hetzner.com
- 2018 year: Free ASP.NET hosting (SmarterASP and more).
- 2018 year: Vultr and CloudWays.
- 2018 year: Можливості Shared-хостингу Godaddy.
- 2018 year: Налаштування сервера для проєкту Bravo.
So, what is Cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/? This is my own view to this strange packages of services, strange but very useful. More strange packages propose maybe only Google. But I like various services form this company and therefore decide to spend my time for this post.
There are a couple of entering of Cloudflare product list
- https://www.cloudflare.com/ then click Resources
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/products/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/
- https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
I try to build my own list (for myself)
1. Network services
So, firstly this is CDN, a bridge between various datacenters.
This is network related services Cloudflare Network Services, one of them is Cloudflare Radar https://radar.cloudflare.com/ to see and analyze what happens on CDN now. For example - this is terrorist attack for Ukraine:
2. Domain registration, DNS services, SSL certificates.
Cloudflare Registrar and Cloudflare DNS server 1.1.1.1 is most popular DNS server in whole world (including on Mobile phone https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/android/), this is Cloudflare WARP service - https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/ (including connection to Zero Trust)
Most of this services is free https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/, even including producing SSL certificates.
3. VPN Services
VPN, of course, is most important parts of all Cloudflare’s SSE & SASE services .Zero Trust is most advanced and popular VPN services in whole world, I like this services and even this site I place to Cloudflare VPN Transfer domain to Cloudflare CDN and than to Cloudflare ZeroTrust VPN..
This service require Card number, but working without money https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/zero-trust-services/.
4. Cloudflare WAF and Captcha service
Most popular Cloudflare service is Cloudflare WAF https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/network-services/, I like this service and used it many times - for example, How to protect your business from DDOS attack by Cloudflare WAF
Other popular service is Captcha service
5. Page services
This service allow to upload any HTML+JS+CSS project and run it without own server.
This is well-known free services:
- https://pages.github.com/ - for pages only
- https://vercel.com/pricing
- Firebase
6. Webworker features
I like and use this service Serverless Telegram bot on Cloudflare, because, for my opinion, this is most however advanced similar services on the world.
Cloudflare Webworker most reach services in the world and included very reach futures:
- free Email router include Email service monitor:
- Image service
- WebWorker can store environment variables ans secrets
- Add custom domain
- Add a Cron Trigger
- Email routing
- Binding to R2, KV, Durable Objects, and D1
- Cloudflare Queues, this is Javascript API for Cloadflare Message Broker
- free Key Value storage
- Browser Rendering (web scrapper) platform
- Client certificates
- Durable Object
- KV Namespace Bindings
- R2 Bucket
- D1 Database
This is limits of free Workers plan without paid
7. Storage Services
Storage services is parts of developers platform https://developers.cloudflare.com/products/?product-group=Developer+platform, this services included SQL Database and R2 storage.
There is a lot of free SQL database with free plan
And millions other with free plan, like Supabase and Firebase
As storage I use Backblaze - faster than Amazon, cheaper than Amazon, therefore Cloudflare Storage Services is not very useful services for me.
But Cloudflare very useful service and has embedded connectors for each main databases:
And eveen for encrease speen you can connect you local storage
8. Cloudflare Stream
Cloudflare stream is popular service, but this is very rare application for me, I created a couple of times application with WebRTC My site with peer-to-peer communication based on Mizu-Voip library., and with Live Media Producing Live Stream, but without Cloudflare features.
Therefore, unfortunately I don't know how this service working https://developers.cloudflare.com/products/?product-group=Media
This is maybe will be interesting service Cloudflare Calls, but unfortunately I don't know how to use it.
9. Cloudflare Web Analytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics. This service allow to show various reports like this.
Unfortunately this report show absolute another data than Google analytics and Cloudflare has no service like Google ADS, therefore for my opinion this is not very useful service.I wait while Cloudflare propose own system like Google Bard, but based on own analystic.
10. Ethereum Gateway
Ethereum Gateway is very interesting opportunity, but I still don't use it, I deploy my own Ethereum node many times - Up and running Ethereum 2.0 node, but still never use this Cloudflare gateway.
11. AI service
There are a couple of AI services, but I'm not a fun of AI service. This is Workers AI SDK
12. What missing in Cloudflare
Cloudflare is awesome service, but my opinion, Cloudflare missing a couple services:
- Deploy own docker to Cloudflare servers
- Deploy own VM to Cloudflare service - this two services is most important to me, I worked many years as program architect of that services Notes about most interesting project in my life and don't understand how huge internet company can not propose it
- Own alternatives of Google ADS
- Own public mail server
If in future Cloudflare will add this 4 services and price will be cool - since than no need any other Cloud service at all - from AWS to Amazon, from Azure to Vultr/Hetzner/Kamatera and so on.
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