I really like Cloudflare's offerings, they are top notch in areas like security, performance and pricing.
What I'm not fond of is company's fixation only with big clients and leaving out a serious effort to bring on the average solo programmers/entrepeneurs (something on which companies like Stripe instead thrived on).
Cloudflare really needs to do more to target small fishes, they are tomorrow mid and big fishes trying to understand how to make small and medium problems trivial leveraging their platforms.
My experience is the opposite. It's quite easy and cheap to start using CF, starting with free plans for their proxy. We've added other CF services and pay them now, I think, about $25/month. Very accessible.
I needed logging to track down a few issues with my website, but logging is apparently a feature for Enterprise only, and requires a recurring four-figure cost. Thus, I switched over to Cloudfront, which lacks in some security features and is insanely expensive past 1 TB, but at least provides features without having to pay a huge amount upfront.
What I'm not fond of is company's fixation only with big clients and leaving out a serious effort to bring on the average solo programmers/entrepeneurs (something on which companies like Stripe instead thrived on).
Cloudflare really needs to do more to target small fishes, they are tomorrow mid and big fishes trying to understand how to make small and medium problems trivial leveraging their platforms.