Comparison of the ChinaCache and MaxCDN CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare ChinaCache and MaxCDN 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	MaxCDN
POPs in North-America	8New York, Washington, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle	8POPs are in New York, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose. MaxCDN has peering locations in San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, and several other cities.
POPs in Europe	3London, Frankfurt, Paris	2Max CDN also has peer locations in Amsterdam (3x), London and Frankfurt.
POPs in Asia (not China)	7Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, HongKong	2Edge POPs are in Hong Kong and Singapore.
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	0An edge location is planned in Sydney, Australia.
POPs in South-America	0	0
POPs in Middle-East	1Qatar	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	ChinaCache	MaxCDN
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	$0.10 per GB, at 1 TB per month
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	Not Available	$0.08 per GB, at 25 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	Not Available	No extra charge
Storage		10 Gigabytes is $9.95/mPrice per GB drops as volume goes up. E.g. 100 Gigabytes costs $69.95 a month.
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	MaxCDN
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)		SCP, SFTP & 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.	The CDN handles the gzippingYou can easily enable Gzip compression in the control panel. Note that only files with these MIME types will be compressed: text/plain, text/html, text/javascript, text/css, text/xml, application/javascript, application/x-javascript, application/xml. Also note that MaxCDN will always request the files uncompressed from your origin server, even if your server can send it Gzipped (this is odd and we have contacted MaxCDN about this.)
Persistent connections
Honors all origin server headers
Can override origin server headers
Set caching headers for pushed files
Custom CNAMEs
HTTPS	Custom CNAME is possible + upload your own certificate.	MaxCDN provides free shared SSL.
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.	XML-RPC API.
Support	247 phone and email support for all customers. In China you can call a local toll free number.	MaxCDN experts are available by phone Monday-Friday, 9am-7pm (PST), but email and ticket support are available 24/7.

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