Comparison of the ChinaCache and Cachefly CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare ChinaCache 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	ChinaCache	Cachefly
POPs in North-America	8New York, Washington, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle	10New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, Dallas, Miami, Washington DC, Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta
POPs in Europe	3London, Frankfurt, Paris	9Madrid, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Milan, Stockholm, Istanbul, Moscow
POPs in Asia (not China)	7Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, HongKong	6Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Tokyo
POPs in China	127The number of locations is too high to list them all, but cities include Shanghai, Beijing and GuangZhou.	0
POPs in Australia	0	2Perth and Sydney
POPs in South-America	0	0
POPs in Middle-East	1Qatar	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	ChinaCache	Cachefly
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	$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	Not Available	$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	Not Available	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.
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	ChinaCache	Cachefly
Origin-Pull	ChinaCache supports 'soft TTL' or 'soft invalidation'. This means that the customer can configure after how long the CDN needs to check on the origin if a file is still valid.	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	Purge time is 3 to 5 minutes. No more than 100 purge requests at one time.
Purge All
Gzip	Resend from origin, or compress on edgeGZIP is not on by default, so make sure you don't forget to turn it on.	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		The rules engine allows you to set custom expire headers by file extension and folder.
Custom CNAMEs
HTTPS	Custom CNAME is possible + upload your own certificate.
Control Panel & statistics	Insight in activity per geographical region/country (not per URL) and informationis available in real-time. You get detailed analytics for mainland China.
Access Logs	Download via HTTP or have ChinaCache upload the log files to your server via FTP. No extra charge.
API	SOAP with JSON response. HTTPS end point. You can do purging, get billing info, get usage info. No limit on the number of API calls per month.
Support	247 phone and email support for all customers. In China you can call a local toll free number.

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