Comparison of the Highwinds and NetDNA CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Highwinds 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	Highwinds	NetDNA
POPs in North-America	13Ashburn (13), Atlanta (2), Chicago (4), Dallas (4), Los Angeles (13), Miami (1), New York (8), Newark (1), Phoenix (6), San Francisco (2), San Jose/Sunnyvale (7), Seattle (3) and Toronto (3).	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	7Amsterdam (6), Brussels, Frankfurt, London (2), Paris, Madrid, and Stockholm.	2POPs in Amsterdam and London. NetDNA also has peer locations in Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
POPs in Asia (not China)	3Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo	2The POP in Hong Kong was launched in October 2011 and Singapore launched Q1 2012..
POPs in China	0	0
POPs in Australia	1Sydney	0An edge location is planned in Sydney, Australia.
POPs in South-America	2Rio de Janeiro (1) and São Paulo (3).	0
POPs in Middle-East	0	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	Highwinds	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	Not available	No extra charge.
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	Highwinds	NetDNA
Origin-Pull
Push (upload to CDN servers)
Purge
Purge All
Gzip	Resend from origin, or compress on edge	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		NetDNA customers get custom CNAMEs for HTTPS pages for free.
Control Panel & statistics	The console is called StrikeTracker, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) that provides a single, integrated front-end control console for managing all of the CDN services. In 2010 StrikeTracker won the European Readers' Choice Award for best Reporting and Analytics Solutions.
Access Logs		NetDNA is working on providing access logs and it should be available in the near future.
API
Support	The Highwinds Network Operations Center is based out of Phoenix, Arizona. They are available 24/7 and can be dialed directly for support. Email is an easy way to get a ticket started up for tracking purposes.	You get direct contact info for engineers and support personnel.

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