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	6Ashburn, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, Los Angeles.	10New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, Dallas, Miami, Washington DC, Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta
POPs in Europe	3London, Paris, Frankfurt.	9Madrid, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Milan, Stockholm, Istanbul, Moscow
POPs in Asia (not China)	8Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai).	6Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Tokyo
POPs in China	0	0
POPs in Australia	2Perth, Adelaide.	2Perth and Sydney
POPs in South-America	0	0
POPs in Middle-East	0	1Doha
POPs in Africa	0	1Cairo

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 month1 million GET requests included.	$0.37 per GB, at 250 GB per monthThis 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 month5 million GET requests included.	$0.12 per GB, at 50 TB per monthThis 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%The Starter plan is $500 for 2 TB and includes 1 million GET requests.	0%
Storage		Lots of space included1000 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		The 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)		FTP, SFTP, SCP or rsync.
Purge	Customers can purge files from the Bitgravity edge servers per file, per directory and do a purge of all files.
Purge All
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	Resend from origin, or compress on edgeCachefly will (of course) not re-compress files that are already being sent compressed by the origin server.
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers
Set caching headers for pushed files	Bitgravity 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.	The rules engine allows you to set custom expire headers by file extension and folder.
Custom CNAMEs
HTTPS	Bitgravity 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.
Control Panel & statistics	Access logs are available for an additional fee.
Access Logs	Access logs are available for an additional fee.
API	The API can be used to do Push and Purge.
Support	24/7/365 phone and email support included.

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