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Executive decision brief | multifamily real estate investment, development, and property management

Three reasons Essex Property Trust and Cloudflare should talk.

Add a consistent security and performance layer around Essex's resident acquisition experience, then simplify DNS and email controls without forcing an application-platform rewrite.

Cloudflare can wrap Essex's Vercel and Sitecore-backed leasing experience with consistent security and performance, then consolidate DNS, email, and media controls without forcing... Digital leasing supports 63,077 apartment homes and a $1.887B revenue portfolio.

DNS / HTTP recon

Vercel headers and DNS are visible on the public site, which exposes apartment search, contact, and resident entry journeys.

Official company source

The media hostname points to sitecoreproxy.io and the official site publishes image-rich apartment and community experiences.

DNS / HTTP recon

Authoritative NS records use GoDaddy domaincontrol.com nameservers.

What to prove together

Prioritized by business impact and strength of public evidence.

01 Business outcome

Protect the Vercel resident-acquisition edge

WAF + Bot Management + Turnstile + Load Balancing What Cloudflare does

Add consistent application security, bot controls, and traffic management in front of the existing Vercel application without replacing Vercel.

Bounded pilot

Proxy one low-risk hostname or route with the current origin preserved for rollback.

Measure

p95 latency, cache hit ratio, origin offload, blocked attacks, operating cost.

02 Business outcome

Optimize community media at the edge

Images + R2 + CDN / Cache Rules What Cloudflare does

Augment Sitecore with responsive transformations, modern formats, cache controls, and optional zero-egress storage for eligible derivatives and campaign assets.

Bounded pilot

Move one image collection or video class while retaining the current path for rollback.

Measure

Bytes delivered, startup or load time, quality, transformations, cost per asset.

03 Business outcome

Move authoritative DNS off registrar infrastructure

Cloudflare Authoritative DNS + DNS Firewall What Cloudflare does

Place DNS on the same global control plane as application protection and traffic steering, reducing registrar dependency for production operations.

Bounded pilot

Import one low-risk zone, validate records, DNSSEC, and rollback before delegation.

Measure

Query latency, availability, change time, failed lookups, retired DNS cost.

01
30-day DiscoverBaseline Vercel traffic, bot and form abuse, Sitecore media bytes, DNS inventory, and lead-routing failures; place one campaign or low-risk...
02
60-day ProveExpand WAF and bot policies to public search and forms, test Images on selected community assets, and validate Email Security with the...
03
Scale by evidenceMigrate authoritative DNS after parallel testing, deploy resilient lead-routing components, and retain Vercel, Sitecore, and Mailgun wherever...
BaselineCurrent vendor run-rate + egress/compute + operating hours.
ValueRetired overlap + avoided load/incidents + hours returned.
DecisionAnnualized pilot delta - Cloudflare run-rate - one-time migration cost.
ProtectWAF, DDoS, bot, API and email security
AccelerateCDN, DNS, load balancing and smart routing
ConnectZero Trust, private access and secure networking
BuildWorkers, R2, AI and developer services