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Fastly versus CDNvideo

Easily compare Fastly and CDNvideo for POP locations, products, pricing, features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these content delivery networks.

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Company

Company Fastly CDNvideo
Short profile Founded in 2011, Fastly has grown into a mature CDN provider. Fastly offers a range of services including streaming media delivery and private CDN but Fastly is best known for being a 'real-time CDN', meaning changes happen instantly and the platform can deliver 'uncacheable' content well. CDNvideo is a global CDN provider with a wide network of servers located on five continents and a part of Wangsu group owning the second largest CDN in the world (>86K servers + bandwidth of 42 TB/sec). Their specialties are live streaming, VoD, HTTP caching, transcoding and website acceleration. CDNvideo has developed an unlimited cloud storage and an HTML5 player enabling P2P streaming and 360-degree video demonstration.

Products

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Product Fastly CDNvideo
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... Acceleration of non-cacheable dynamic content
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) Website acceleration
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? Live Streaming
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video Video on Demand Video On Demand
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization Image Optimizer Image optim
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain Managed cloud-based authoritative DNS
WAFWeb Application Firewall Web application firewall Cloud WAF
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. DDoS Mitigation Network and Application Anti-DDoS
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs Fastly Managed CDN White Label
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers Compute@Edge K8S and Docker container orchestration

Network

How many POP locations do Fastly and CDNvideo have in different parts of the world?

Region Fastly CDNvideo
North America 25 13
Latin America 8 7
Europe 20 11
Russia & CIS 0 31
Asia excl. China 13 23
China 0 100
Oceania 8 4
Middle East 2 8
Africa 3 7

Pricing

Pricing & contract duration Fastly CDNvideo
Minimum contract term None 1 month
Minimum monthly costs $50 $50
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests $0.0075 - $0.016 per 10k requests None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred None None
NA/EU traffic (low volume) $0.12 per GB $0.05
APAC traffic (low volume) $0.19 per GB $0.05
LATAM traffic (low volume) $0.28 per GB $0.05

Features

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Web acceleration Fastly CDNvideo
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. 5 minutes
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? Instant! 5 minutes
Apex/root domain OK Blog: Root domain on CDN and performanceNo performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com Global anycast IPs are available Non-Anycasted network
HTTP/2
HTTP/3 Enabling HTTP/3
WebSockets Limited availability
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? IPv6 at Fastly
Compression CDN Guide: CompressionReduce file size for faster delivery Resend from origin, or compress on edge. Brotli! Resend from origin only
tooltip Does not compress on the edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? HTTP and HTTPS HTTP and HTTPS.
tooltip IP address as origin is possible
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? Can be different from origin host Configure specific other Host header
tooltip CDN can also forward client request Host header to origin
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP Also available as separate product (Media Shield)
Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room Stateful waiting room with Compute@Edge
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin Upload via web interface. Storage costs apply
Cache control - CDN caching Full and granular control
Cache control - client caching Full and granular control
Serve Stale CDN Guide: Serve StaleCDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble Cache-Control extensions support
Purge CDN Guide: PurgeInvalidate or delete cached objects on CDN Instant! Purging takes a few minutes
Purge - capabilities Purge all and by key Purge all but not purge by directory or tag or header
Analytics Real-time! 1-5 minutes delay
Log files Real-time streaming of logs to your server Download from the UI
tooltip Logs are ~ 30 minutes delayed
API Purge, analytics, configuration Purge, analytics and configuration
HTTPS & Content Protection Fastly CDNvideo
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net Free for first 5 domains, $20 per additional domain Free
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate $100/m per FQDN, $275/m for wildcard domain Free
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN EV cert possible.
Token authentication Enabling URL token validation
Geo blocking
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content Creating and using Edge Dictionaries
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content Authenticating before returning a request
IP white/blacklisting About Edge ACLs

Support

Customer support Fastly CDNvideo
Documentation Yes, public Yes, the Starters Guide is available to the public
Humans Email support during business hours is free. Pay extra if you need more/better. Two paid plans available All customers get 24/7 email, Skype and phone support