Solutions

Content delivery or website protection?

Start with your immediate website concern. Choose a scenario to explore the requirements that matter for your fit evaluation.

Choose your scenario
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Choose your evaluation path

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Content delivery

What does your website need from its content-delivery setup?

Explore the delivery fit questions with your website’s content and access requirements in mind.

Explore delivery fit
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Website protection

Which website-protection requirements do you need to investigate?

Explore the protection fit questions with your website’s risks and operating constraints in mind.

Explore protection fit

Requirement comparison

Different questions. Relevant capabilities.

Start with the requirement, then decide what to examine. This comparison connects each category to Cloudflare capabilities; it does not rank results or establish suitability for your website.

Content delivery connects to CDN. Website protection connects to DDoS protection, WAF, and bot protection. Each category has a different discussion focus.
Requirement category
Content delivery
Capabilities to examine
  • CDN
Discussion focus

How should website content reach your visitors?

Define the content you need to deliver and the delivery questions your technical team needs to resolve.

Requirement category
Website protection
Capabilities to examine
  • DDoS protection
  • WAF
  • Bot protection
Discussion focus

Which website protection concerns need evaluation?

Identify the concerns you want to examine, then consider which protection capabilities belong in the discussion.

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Customer case context

Explore the Shopify case

Read the Shopify customer case as an application-context resource alongside your website delivery and protection requirements.

View Shopify case

Continue your evaluation

Scenario questions

Fit review

What if delivery and protection are both relevant?

You do not need to choose one concern and set the other aside. Bring both sets of requirements into a combined evaluation, including the questions and constraints that matter to your website. Continue to Fit Review

Technical

Where can I examine capability details?

Use the technical evaluation path to look more closely at the capabilities you are considering. Keep your implementation questions alongside your requirements so you can identify what still needs clarification. Explore Technical

Pricing

Where should I take pricing questions?

Continue to Pricing for the commercial evaluation path. Frame your questions around the scope you are considering and the business requirements that will inform your decision. Go to Pricing

Still working through the fit?

Unresolved requirements

Bring your remaining website delivery or protection questions to a sales discussion about your requirements.

Discuss your requirements