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CloudFlare vs Google Cloud CDN: What are the differences?

What is CloudFlare? The Web Performance & Security Company. Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.

What is Google Cloud CDN? Low-latency, low-cost content delivery using Google's global network. Google Cloud CDN leverages Google's globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites and applications served out of Google Compute Engine. Cloud CDN lowers network latency, offloads origins, and reduces serving costs. Once you've set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing, simply enable Cloud CDN with a single checkbox.

CloudFlare and Google Cloud CDN can be categorized as "Content Delivery Network" tools.

Some of the features offered by CloudFlare are:

CDN
WAF (Web Application Firewall)
DDOS Protection

On the other hand, Google Cloud CDN provides the following key features:

Anycast
Invalidation
HTTP/2

According to the StackShare community, CloudFlare has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2300 company stacks & 712 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud CDN, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

Pros of CloudFlare

Pros of Google Cloud CDN

415
Easy setup, great cdn
254
Free ssl
192
Easy setup
183
Security
163
Ssl
91
Great cdn
75
Optimizer
67
Simple
42
Great UI
25
Great js cdn
10
DNS Analytics
10
Apps
10
AutoMinify
7
Easy
7
Rocket Loader
5
IPv6 "One Click"
4
Cheapest SSL
4
API
4
DNSSEC
3
Asynchronous resource loading
3
Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else
3
SPDY
3
Fantastic CDN service
3
Ipv6
3
HTTP/2 Support
3
Amazing performance
2
Easy Use
2
Performance
2
Nice DNS
2
Free GeoIP
2
Global Load Balancing
1
SSHFP
0
Maker

1
Extremely Fast

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Cons of CloudFlare

Cons of Google Cloud CDN

1
No support for SSHFP records

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What is CloudFlare?

Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.

What is Google Cloud CDN?

Google Cloud CDN leverages Google's globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites and applications served out of Google Compute Engine. Cloud CDN lowers network latency, offloads origins, and reduces serving costs. Once you've set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing, simply enable Cloud CDN with a single checkbox.

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What companies use Google Cloud CDN?

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What are some alternatives to CloudFlare and Google Cloud CDN?

Akamai

If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology, so you can focus on driving your business faster forward.

MaxCDN

The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.

Incapsula

Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.

Netlify

Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

Fastly

Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.

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News about CloudFlare

It’s Hard To Change The Keys To The Internet And It Involves Destroying HSM’s

(blog.cloudflare.com)

Feb 6, 2018

How we made our page-load optimisations even faster

(blog.cloudflare.com)

Feb 2, 2018