10 Top Cloudflare Alternatives for Your Website

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CloudFlare

Next, we’ll take a look at two companies that, like Cloudflare, offer protection from malicious traffic and code injections, but unlike their more illustrious counterpart, don’t offer CDN services. So in case you’re using Cloudflare’s free tier and is only looking for inexpensive but effective protection from targeted attacks, these are the services you need to take a look at. Starting off with Sucuri, it’s is a platform-agnostic cloud services provider that works to protect your site irrespective of whether you’re running a WordPress blog, a Magento e-commerce portal or a phpbb forum. It also supports open-source CMS platforms like Drupal, Joomla and v Bulletin, alongside Microsoft’s .Net Framework.

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Indusface AppTrana

Looking for a Cloudflare alternative that takes the pain out of managing a complete security solution for your website? Indusface AppTrana provides dynamic application security scanning (DAST), Manual pen-testing, web application firewall, DDOS protection, & CDN in a single platform. AppTrana provides a pay as you go model with a base offering starting at $99/month. They also provide a freemium offering where customers can start risk detection for free.

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Akamai

Akamai is one of the largest and best-known CDNs and cloud services provider in the world, and is believed to be responsible for serving between 15 to 30-percent of all web-traffic. If stopping DDoS attacks and optimizing content delivery speed are at the top of your list of priorities, this is the service that you’ll need to seriously look at. That’s because the company’s proprietary “Prolexic’s PLXedge” technology gives it a whopping 2.3 Tbps of dedicated bandwidth specifically meant for DDoS absorption. Akamai also uses a proprietary web-application firewall to provide application layer protection.

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Imperva

Another interesting feature is “IncapRules” – a full-fledged scripting language that Imperva claims gives “full and detailed control of security policies” to its clients. According to Imperva, IncapRules provides access to a whole host of tools to analyze critical information about incoming traffic including, headers, client type, location and access rates. Imperva also has dozens of data centers with its “Behemoth” machines that can handle a whopping 170 Gb/s of data apiece and process up to 100 million packets per second. Imperva now offers its data and app features separately, and you can check out their plans here.

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Amazon CloudFront

While Amazon CloudFront is widely regarded as one of the best and most reliable CDN service providers there is, there are a few issues that users need to keep in mind. First off, some of the settings are a bit over-simplified, so as a sysadmin, you’ll need to artificially trigger Stackoverflow just to figure out simple details like how long objects linger before being ejected. Overall, CloudFront may not be a perfect CDN solution, but it is, very definitely, one of the best Cloudflare alternatives there is right now.

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StackPath

Stackpath is built on top of the open source MaxCDN platform that was acquired by the company back in 2016. Its content delivery service comes with an integrated web application firewall and a fully-documented API. The service comes with instant configuration updates, instant purging, real-time analytics and origin shield. One of the most remarkable things about StackPath’s services is its pricing strategy that’s both simple and affordable, raging from just $15 per month to enterprise plans that you can get the price for by contacting their sales department. All plans come with SSL, WAF and DDoS protection.

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Fastly

Fastly offers on-the-go pricing that’s based on the total number of requests and the volume of data transfer. The company also allows users to test up to $50 of traffic for free, without any long-term commitment. However, you can also opt for more predictable plans by opting for Fastly’s Essential, Professional, or Enterprise plans. The company also provides extensive public documentation and API references to all its clients.

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Sucuri

The service offers a Website Application Firewall (WAF) and load balancing service in the form of ‘CloudProxy’. Sucuri also blocks DDoS attacks, SQL injections and XSS JavaScript hacks, while allowing its customers to use custom SSL certificates with some of their higher-priced plans. Sucuri also offers website monitoring, malware scanning, DDoS protection and malware removal services. Unlike Cloudflare, Sucuri doesn’t offer a free plan, but its basic paid tier is significantly cheaper than Cloudflare’s Pro plan and, includes full website monitoring, website application firewall, DDoS protection, reputation monitoring, malware removal and free LetsEncrypt SSL certificate.

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Reblaze

Reblaze is an Israeli company with offices in the U.K. and the U.S. and, claims to have successfully protected many “high-profile clients” from from a broad range of attacks including, SQL injection, XSS and DDoS. The company also claims to be able to protect its clients from platform-specific zero-day vulnerabilities. The service also allows its users to block incoming traffic from specific countries, cities, networks, companies and anonymizer networks. Reblaze also protects its customers from hackers by routing all traffic through its own locked-down Security Gateways with dynamic DNS allocation. The company also uses “Elastic Load Balancing” to distribute the increased traffic across its global network of Security Gateways to relieve stress on local ISPs and bandwidth providers.

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CDN77

Even on the DDoS protection and security front, CDN77 is considered up to the task due largely to the automatic detection and blocking mechanism. It comes with a proprietary Hurricane DDoS solution based on DPDK which helps it monitor traffic, keep a track of attacks and block them fast. The reliable content protection coupled with a host of access management features including TLS 1.3, secure token, GEO/IP blocking, and hotlink protection makes it quite competent. But what gives it an edge over many rivals is the seamless integration with your business via robust API. Everything considered; CDN77 can easily stake the claim of being one of the best cost-effective Cloudflare alternatives in the market right now.

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Microsoft Azure

Another department where Microsoft Azure is quite good is large scaling that comes into effect when handling instantaneous high loads. Times when you are hosting a big event, the large scaling will ensure that the over-the-top-traffic won’t bring down your site. As for customization, I think Azure is on par with Cloudflare (if not better). So, depending on what works best for your website, you can fine-tune the CDN service to yield the desired result. What’s more, it also allows you to create custom mobile experiences with the help of Azure Cosmos DB, Xamarin, HockeyApp, and the smart traffic manager.

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KeyCDN

Customization is the key to having a personalized experience. In this regard, KeyCDN is a touch better than Cloudflare. Therefore, you can configure the essential components, add it to any CMS or custom application to get the preferred result. If not optimized perfectly, images can drastically slow down content delivery. Keeping this crucial aspect in mind, KeyCDN offers a pretty easy way to optimize images without distorting the quality. One of my favorite features of this CDN service is better zone management. Thus, you can add, edit, and delete zones to improve performance. Not to mention the real-time reports that offer you better insight into the areas that need special focus.

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