Comparison of the ChinaCache and CDN77 CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare ChinaCache and CDN77 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	CDN77
POPs in North-America	8New York, Washington, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle	24
POPs in Europe	3London, Frankfurt, Paris	28
POPs in Asia (not China)	7Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, HongKong	8
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	4
POPs in South-America	0	1
POPs in Middle-East	1Qatar	1
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	ChinaCache	CDN77
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	$0.05 per GB
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	Not Available	$0.03 per GB, at 350 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	Not Available	0%
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	ChinaCache	CDN77
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.
Push (upload to CDN servers)
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.	The CDN handles the gzipping
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs		Multiple CNAMEs per origin.
HTTPS	Custom CNAME is possible + upload your own certificate.	Shared SSL (free of charge) and custom domain SSL (pay extra).
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.	24x7 via live chat and email, but you can also reach CDN77 by phone using a UK or US number (office hours only).

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