Company profile
NetDNA was founded in October 2009 and has quickly become a well known CDN company, providing a complete feature set and POPs in multiple continents. The NetDNA company offers CDN services under three distinct brands. MaxCDN is their a self-service, pay-as-you-go CDN solution and HDDN is a self-service video-on-demand solution. The NetDNA branded service is targeted at enterprise customers in long-term agreements, who enjoy priority support and priority development for new feature requests.
Network Map
NetDNA has a 100% SSD Network. This means that all servers worldwide utilize the latest Solid State Drive (SSD) technology, which boosts performance thanks to the faster I/O request speed on SSDs. SSDs also help decrease power costs through greater efficiency.
Pricing & Contract duration
NetDNA has competitive pricing with multiple price tiers. The price for US/EU traffic can drop to as low as $0.01/GB at high volume.
| Pricing & Contract duration | |
|---|---|
| Contract duration minimum | 12 Months |
| Price US/EU traffic - low volume | $0.06 per GB NetDNA customers need to commit to a monthly data transfer bucket and cannot use NetDNA in a pay-as-you-go model. The threshold for the first bucket is up to 10 TB/month. The minimum bandwidth consumption is unknown. |
| Price US/EU traffic - high volume | $0.01 per GB, at 5000 TB per monthThe price drops at each of the following data transfer buckets, in GB/month: 40 - 100 - 350 - 524 - 4000 - 5000. |
| Extra charge for APAC region traffic | 67% |
| Storage | No extra charge. |
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
NetDNA gives you almost everything you need for static caching CDN, including HTTP Referrer Protection (people can't steal your bandwidth and real time reporting. What's primarily missing is the ability to get the raw access logs.
| Features & Support | |
|---|---|
| Origin-Pull |  |
| Push (upload to CDN servers) | |
| Purge | |
| Purge All | |
| Gzip | The CDN handles the gzippingYou can easily enable Gzip compression in the control panel. Note that only files with these MIME types will be compressed: text/plain, text/html, text/javascript, text/css, text/xml, application/javascript, application/x-javascript, application/xml. Also note that NetDNA will always request the files uncompressed from your origin server, even if your server can send it Gzipped (this is odd and we have contacted NetDNA about this.) |
| Persistent connections | |
| Honors all origin server headers | |
| Can override origin server headers | |
| Set caching headers for pushed files | |
| Custom CNAMEs | |
| HTTPS | NetDNA customers get custom CNAMEs for HTTPS pages for free. |
| Control Panel & statistics | |
| Access Logs |  NetDNA is working on providing access logs and it should be available in the near future. |
| API | |
| Support | You get direct contact info for engineers and support personnel. |
Resellers
Turbobytes
Turbobytes offers a multi-CDN service, enabling you to have your static content delivered by 6 global content delivery networks, not just one. Turbobytes closely monitors CDN performance, analyzes the data in real-time and makes intelligent decisions on which CDN to use where in the world. Result: content is always delivered by the fastest CDN, everywhere, all the time.
Turbobytes makes multi-CDN easy: one simple contract, automated performance optimization and a friendly Cancel-Anytime policy.
Learn more about using NetDNA via Turbobytes