Comparison of the ChinaCache and EdgeCast CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare ChinaCache and EdgeCast 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	EdgeCast
POPs in North-America	8New York, Washington, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle	11Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Washington D.C., Los Angeles (3), Miami, New York, San Jose, Seattle.
POPs in Europe	3London, Frankfurt, Paris	7Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Paris, Vienna, Stockholm.
POPs in Asia (not China)	7Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, HongKong	4Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka.
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	1Sydney.
POPs in South-America	0	1Sao Paulo (BR)
POPs in Middle-East	1Qatar	01 pending in Dubai.
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	EdgeCast
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	Not Available
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	Not Available	Not Available
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	Not Available	Not Available
Storage		Not available
Resellers	Turbobytes	GoGrid, Speedyrails, 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	EdgeCast
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.	Resend from origin, or compress on edgeBy default, all Gzip compression is off, even if the origin sends a file compressed. EdgeCast does gzipping on the edge servers and this is easy to turn on in the online control panel. You can define the MIME types for files that should be compressed yourself which is great. Files larger than 1MB will never be served with compression, but that should not be a problem. If you want EdgeCast to honor the origin server compression on a cache miss request, you have to ask your EdgeCast account manager explicitly this on.
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers		EdgeCast offers 3 modes for handling files with query string parameters (for example all.css?v=1). This can come in quite handy in some cases.
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs		You can have multiple origins and CNAMEs. It's easy to setup in the online control panel. EdgeCast gives the IP addresses (ranges) of all their POPs, so you can whitelist the access to your origin if you need to.
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.	EdgeCast provides an easy-to-use, intuitive online panel. It includes lots of reports, like Traffic Summary, Data Transferred, Cache Hit Ratio and CDN Storage. You can add Users and grant each user access to specific sections in the control panel.
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.	You get a dedicated account manager and you will also be assigned a dedicated implementation engineer.

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