Comparison of the Bitgravity and Limelight CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Bitgravity and Limelight 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	Limelight
POPs in North-America	6Ashburn, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, Los Angeles.	Not Available
POPs in Europe	3London, Paris, Frankfurt.	Not Available
POPs in Asia (not China)	8Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai).	Not Available
POPs in China	0	Not Available
POPs in Australia	2Perth, Adelaide.	Not Available
POPs in South-America	0	Not Available
POPs in Middle-East	0	Not Available
POPs in Africa	0	Not Available

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	Limelight
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	$0.15 per GB, at 2 TB per month1 million GET requests included.	Not Available
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	$0.07 per GB, at 15 TB per month5 million GET requests included.	Not Available
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	67%The Starter plan is $500 for 2 TB and includes 1 million GET requests.	Not Available
Storage		Not available

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	Limelight
Origin-Pull
Push (upload to CDN servers)
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 edge
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.
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.	Custom CNAME is available.
Control Panel & statistics	Access logs are available for an additional fee.	Globally Distributed User Agents collect real-time data about last-mile network conditions, providing detailed insight into the end-user experience.
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.	All English speaking based in USA. Local support will be handled by one of Limelight SE's in the London office where they have 4 Sales Engineers for Northern Europe (Benelux, Scandinavia, UK & Ireland).

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