Comparison of the Bitgravity and NetDNA CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Bitgravity and NetDNA 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 NetDNA
POPs in North-America 6HelpAshburn, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, Los Angeles. 8HelpPOPs are in New York, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose. NetDNA has peering locations in San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, and several other cities.
POPs in Europe 3HelpLondon, Paris, Frankfurt. 2HelpPOPs in Amsterdam and London. NetDNA also has peer locations in Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
POPs in Asia (not China) 8HelpHong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai). 2HelpThe POP in Hong Kong was launched in October 2011 and Singapore launched Q1 2012..
POPs in China 0 0
POPs in Australia 2HelpPerth, Adelaide. 0HelpAn edge location is planned in Sydney, Australia.
POPs in South-America 0 0
POPs in Middle-East 0 0
POPs in Africa 0 0

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 NetDNA
Price US/EU traffic - low volume $0.15 per GB, at 2 TB per monthHelp1 million GET requests included. $0.06 per GBHelpNetDNA 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 $0.07 per GB, at 15 TB per monthHelp5 million GET requests included. $0.01 per GB, at 5000 TB per monthHelpThe 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%HelpThe Starter plan is $500 for 2 TB and includes 1 million GET requests. 67%
Storage No extra charge.
Resellers Turbobytes

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 NetDNA
Origin-Pull Yes Yes
Push (upload to CDN servers) Yes Yes
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 The CDN handles the gzippingHelpYou 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 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. Yes
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. YesHelpNetDNA customers get custom CNAMEs for HTTPS pages for free.
Control Panel & statistics YesHelpAccess logs are available for an additional fee. Yes
Access Logs YesHelpAccess logs are available for an additional fee. NoHelpNetDNA is working on providing access logs and it should be available in the near future.
API YesHelpThe API can be used to do Push and Purge. Yes
Support YesHelp24/7/365 phone and email support included. YesHelpYou get direct contact info for engineers and support personnel.
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