Comparison of the Bitgravity and Voxel CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Bitgravity and Voxel 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	Voxel
POPs in North-America	6Ashburn, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, Los Angeles.	16New York (8x), New Jersey (2x), Ashburn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Jose and Palo Alto
POPs in Europe	3London, Paris, Frankfurt.	3London, Amsterdam (2x)
POPs in Asia (not China)	8Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai).	2Hong Kong and Singapore
POPs in China	0	0
POPs in Australia	2Perth, Adelaide.	0
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	Voxel
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	$0.15 per GB, at 2 TB per month1 million GET requests included.	$0.10 per GB
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	$0.07 per GB, at 15 TB per month5 million GET requests included.	$0.05 per GB, at 500 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	67%The Starter plan is $500 for 2 TB and includes 1 million GET requests.	No extra charge
Storage		$0.20 per GB per monthIt's actually $0.00027/GB per hour or $0.20/GB per month.

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	Voxel
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	Only if origin server does Gzip
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers		It is possible to very specifically alter 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		CNAME is not possible for secure webpages (SSL)
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.	Voxel charges $99 per month extra for handling traffic over SSL. A custom CNAME is not possible for secure pages.
Control Panel & statistics	Access logs are available for an additional fee.
Access Logs	Access logs are available for an additional fee.	Rsynch for the log files is supported.
API	The API can be used to do Push and Purge.	Purge objects from VoxCAST's cache. Adjust the configuration of your VoxCAST CDN to change parameters like cache expiration time; origin settings; log formats; etc.
Support	24/7/365 phone and email support included.	Voxel believes in providing exceptional "Zero Bureaucracy" support to all customers and they handle support 24/7/365 from their New York and Singapore offices, phone and email. Response time depends on the type of issue and is generally within the hour.

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