Comment by jacob_masse

Fair question. Cloudflare is great if you're protecting web apps behind a reverse proxy. Flowtriq solves a different problem.

If you're running bare metal, hosting infrastructure, or game servers, you can't just point DNS at Cloudflare and call it a day. Your traffic isn't HTTP. You need something that sits on your network, watches raw traffic, and reacts in real time with BGP FlowSpec, RTBH, or cloud scrubbing. Even in this case study, our customer would have been fully exposed with Cloudflare as the attack was across L3/L4 vectors. That's not HTTP traffic you can stick behind Cloudflare's reverse proxy.

Flowtriq runs directly on your servers, detects attacks in under a second, and automatically deploys mitigation at the network level. Full PCAP evidence, instant alerts on Slack/Discord/PagerDuty.

TLDR: Cloudflare is a CDN that proxies your HTTP traffic. Flowtriq is a lightweight agent that lives on your infrastructure, does deep packet inspection on live traffic, classifies attack vectors, and runs automated mitigation runbooks with full analysis and alerting (among many other things). Different tools for different problems.