Comparison of the Bitgravity and Cachefly CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Bitgravity and Cachefly for POP locations, pricing and features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these Content Delivery Networks.

POP locations Bitgravity Cachefly
POPs in North-America 6HelpAshburn, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, Los Angeles. 10HelpNew York, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, Dallas, Miami, Washington DC, Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta
POPs in Europe 3HelpLondon, Paris, Frankfurt. 9HelpMadrid, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Milan, Stockholm, Istanbul, Moscow
POPs in Asia (not China) 8HelpHong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai). 6HelpMumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Tokyo
POPs in China 0 0
POPs in Australia 2HelpPerth, Adelaide. 2HelpPerth and Sydney
POPs in South-America 0 0
POPs in Middle-East 0 1HelpDoha
POPs in Africa 0 1HelpCairo

A POP is a Point Of Presence, an access point to the Internet. It is a physical, strategically placed location that houses multiple CDN servers.

Pricing Bitgravity Cachefly
Price US/EU traffic - low volume $0.15 per GB, at 2 TB per monthHelp1 million GET requests included. $0.37 per GB, at 250 GB per monthHelpThis is the PLUS package: $99/month for 256 GB data transfer.
Price US/EU traffic - high volume $0.07 per GB, at 15 TB per monthHelp5 million GET requests included. $0.12 per GB, at 50 TB per monthHelpThis is the price level in a custom plan. The CacheFly site mentions price/GB can be as low as $0.03/GB, and that is true but you have to do really high volume (many petabytes) to get that price.
Extra charge for APAC region traffic 67%HelpThe Starter plan is $500 for 2 TB and includes 1 million GET requests. 0%
Storage Lots of space includedHelp1000 MB included in the cheapest package (PLUS, 37 cents/GB transfer) and this increases as volume increases. E.g. for 50 TB transfer, the storage is 100 GB. Excess storage is charged at $15/GB regardless of the price plan.

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 Bitgravity Cachefly
Origin-Pull Yes YesHelpThe Pricing page on the CacheFly site mentions that PLUS customers can't do Origin-Pull, but that is not true.
Push (upload to CDN servers) Yes YesHelpFTP, SFTP, SCP or rsync.
Purge YesHelpCustomers can purge files from the Bitgravity edge servers per file, per directory and do a purge of all files. Yes
Purge All Yes Yes
Gzip Only if origin server does Gzip Resend from origin, or compress on edgeHelpCachefly will (of course) not re-compress files that are already being sent compressed by the origin server.
Persistent connections Yes Yes
Honors all origin server headers Yes Yes
Can override origin server headers Yes Yes
Set caching headers for pushed files YesHelpBitgravity supports the HTTP/1.1 RFC and can support any parameters for query strings. Futhermore, Bitgravity can configure based on most customer use cases, so at the customer, host, MIME type, or URL level. YesHelpThe rules engine allows you to set custom expire headers by file extension and folder.
Custom CNAMEs Yes Yes
HTTPS YesHelpBitgravity provides HTTPS delivery with their own shared certificates but they will be rolling out the capability of hosting third party certs by mid February 2013. Yes
Control Panel & statistics YesHelpAccess logs are available for an additional fee. Yes
Access Logs YesHelpAccess logs are available for an additional fee. Yes
API YesHelpThe API can be used to do Push and Purge. Yes
Support YesHelp24/7/365 phone and email support included. Yes
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