Company profile

Cotendo is a high-end CDN platform built from the ground up. It is run by intelligent software, with innovative technology and services like Adaptive Image Compression, SEO Analytics and Site Assure (origin monitoring and automated failover system). Cotendo offers a full suite of acceleration services including Dynamic Site Acceleration and Advanced DNS. Cotendo was acquired by Akamai (read more)

Network Map

Cotendo has 35 POPs world-wide. They have a strong presence in Europe, South-America, India and China. POP locations include Spain, Italy, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Israel and Qatar. Cotendo CDN Network Map

Pricing & Contract duration

Cotendo does not make pricing information public. Get in touch with them if you are interested in their services and pricing.

Pricing & Contract duration
Contract duration minimum12 Months
Price US/EU traffic - low volumeNot Available
Price US/EU traffic - high volumeNot Available
Extra charge for APAC region trafficNot Available
StorageUnlimited, free.HelpCotendo does not charge for storage, only for data transfer.

Note: custom price plans are very common in the CDN market, especially for large volume customers. We recommend you always talk to the CDN provider about your needs and requirements and work with them to get a best-fit deal.

Features & Support

Cotendo privides flexible configuration options, granular control and real-time reporting, immediate configuration changes and content flush. Quick, simple deployment, requiring no changes to your current systems.

Features & Support
Origin-PullYes
Push (upload to CDN servers)Yes
PurgeYes
Purge AllYesHelpContendo support various types of flush expressions such as /* ; /subfolder/* ; /subfolder/*.jpg; etc.
GzipResend from origin, or compress on edgeHelpCotendo also offers the possibility to deactivate Gzip on the origin and have Cotendo do the Gzipping on their servers (compression-on-the-fly), for an even faster delivery to end users and less load on the origin. And, Cotendo supports exclude lists. If a specific user-agent requests a compressed object, the Cotendo server can decide to send it uncompressed due to known compliancy issues that the user-agent might have.
Persistent connectionsYes
Honors all origin server headersYesHelpCotendo will comply to the following cache headers: Pragma: no-cache, Expires: valid date, Cache-Control: no-cache or no-store or max-age=x.
Can override origin server headersYesHelpCotendo supports full modifications of any headers. The customer can add his own headers, set the value of any existing header and even re-name some headers while preserving their value. Also, to support mobile content delivery, Cotendo's CDN-integrated mobile device database offers the ability and flexibility to cache content according to device.
Set caching headers for pushed filesYes
Custom CNAMEsYes
HTTPSYes
Control Panel & statisticsYesHelpCotendo offers the possibility to test and validate new CDN configurations in the complete staging environment without impacting production traffic. Statistics include: Real-time Usage Report. Top Objects Report. Referrer Report.
Access LogsYesHelpCotendo supports a full transaction log service which will FTP logs to the customers's FTP server. The customer can decide how frequent he wants the logs to be sent (daily, hourly, real-time). Additionally, the customer can decide which fields and in which format (i.e. supports w3c format) to generate the log.
APIYesHelpThe different APIs available are: Flush (purge), Set Configuration, Get Configuration, Publish Configuration. Additionally Cotendo supports report APIs (Get Bandwidth Report by Account; Get Bandwidth Report by Origin and many others).
SupportYesHelpAll Cotendo services are including 24/7/365 premium support by phone and e-mail (with a human (not auto reply) e-mail response time within 5 minutes). Furthermore every customer gets an own dedicated engineer for all technical matters + an own dedicated account manager for all business matters (including all direct contacts: mobile phone number, email, Skype, etc.)

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