ProtectMyWebsite vs Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a powerful self-serve platform — if you have the time and expertise to configure and maintain it. ProtectMyWebsite is the opposite: an enterprise AWS WAF that we provision, tune, and watch for you. Here's how they compare for protecting a business website.
| ProtectMyWebsite | Cloudflare Business | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $150 / site / month | $250 / month |
| Set up & tuned for you | ✓ managed | Self-serve |
| Full AWS managed WAF rules | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom IP / geo / rate rules | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free auto-renewing SSL | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-click managed-DNS setup | ✓ | ✓ |
| Attack-spike email + Slack/webhook | ✓ included | ✓ |
| Bot Control + count→block tuning | ✓ included | Add-on / DIY |
| Products to learn | Just WAF | 30+ |
| 99.9% edge SLA | ✓ service credits | See their terms |
Cloudflare Business public list for new customers (2026): $250 / month per zone, or $200/mo equivalent on annual prepay ($2,400/year). Need a CDN, Workers, or Zero Trust? That's Cloudflare. If you just need the site protected, you're here. Our 99.9% edge SLA: /sla.
Self-serve dashboard vs done-for-you
With Cloudflare you sign up, point your DNS, and then own every decision: which rules to enable, what to put in block vs log, how to handle false positives, and when to tune. That flexibility is great for engineering teams and a burden for everyone else.
ProtectMyWebsite runs on AWS WAF — the same managed rule groups trusted by enterprises — but we do the work. We provision the firewall, enable the right OWASP, bot, and IP-reputation rules, start them in monitoring mode, and promote them to blocking once we've confirmed they won't break your traffic.
What you actually manage
On Cloudflare's free and lower tiers, advanced WAF features and bot management are limited or paid add-ons, and the configuration is yours to own. On ProtectMyWebsite, every AWS managed rule group is included and managed — SQL injection, cross-site scripting, known exploits, bad bots, malicious IPs, even account-takeover protection — for one flat price.
You get one simple screen showing traffic and blocked attacks, plus a human to message when you have a question. No 30-product dashboard to learn.
Pricing and transparency
ProtectMyWebsite is $150/site/month, fully managed, with included bandwidth and clear pass-through pricing if you exceed it. Free auto-renewing SSL is included.
Cloudflare Business lists at $250 / month per zone for new customers, or $200/mo equivalent on annual prepay ($2,400/year). That is a 30-product platform you configure yourself.
If you want a platform to operate yourself, Cloudflare is excellent. If you want website protection handled for you, that's what we do.