Comparison of the ChinaCache and NetDNA CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare ChinaCache and NetDNA 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	NetDNA
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. NetDNA has peering locations in San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, and several other cities.
POPs in Europe	3London, Frankfurt, Paris	2POPs in Amsterdam and London. NetDNA also has peer locations in Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
POPs in Asia (not China)	7Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, HongKong	2The POP in Hong Kong was launched in October 2011 and Singapore launched Q1 2012..
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	NetDNA
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	Not Available	$0.06 per GBNetDNA customers need to commit to a monthly data transfer bucket and cannot use NetDNA in a pay-as-you-go model. The threshold for the first bucket is up to 10 TB/month. The minimum bandwidth consumption is unknown.
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	Not Available	$0.01 per GB, at 5000 TB per monthThe price drops at each of the following data transfer buckets, in GB/month: 40 - 100 - 350 - 524 - 4000 - 5000.
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	Not Available	67%
Storage		No extra charge.
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	NetDNA
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 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 NetDNA 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 NetDNA 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.	NetDNA customers get custom CNAMEs for HTTPS pages for free.
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.	NetDNA is working on providing access logs and it should be available in the near future.
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 direct contact info for engineers and support personnel.

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