Comparison of the ChinaCache and Fastly CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare ChinaCache and Fastly 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	Fastly
POPs in North-America	8New York, Washington, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle	4
POPs in Europe	3London, Frankfurt, Paris	3
POPs in Asia (not China)	7Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, HongKong	Not Available
POPs in China	127The number of locations is too high to list them all, but cities include Shanghai, Beijing and GuangZhou.	Not Available
POPs in Australia	0	Not Available
POPs in South-America	0	Not Available
POPs in Middle-East	1Qatar	Not Available
POPs in Africa	0	Not Available

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	Fastly
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	$0.12 per GB
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	Not Available	$0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	Not Available	733%Negotiable
Storage
Resellers	Turbobytes	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	Fastly
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.	Purging can only done by API.
Purge All		Purging can only done by API.
Gzip	Resend from origin, or compress on edgeGZIP is not on by default, so make sure you don't forget to turn it on.	Only if origin server does GzipFastly will soon be able to handle the gzipping on the edge servers, which means it can send compressed content even when the origin server does not.
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers		Fastly supports surrogate-control, which allows users to send different cache directives to the Fastly edge servers than what is sent to the user.
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs
HTTPS	Custom CNAME is possible + upload your own certificate.	Fastly charges $500 setup plus $100/month for custom SSL domain.
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.	Raw log files can be streamed via socket.io or rsyslog. Fastly can also periodically dump them to Amazon S3 buckets.
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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