Comparison of the Voxel and Fastly CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Voxel 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	Voxel	Fastly
POPs in North-America	16New York (8x), New Jersey (2x), Ashburn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Jose and Palo Alto	4
POPs in Europe	3London, Amsterdam (2x)	3
POPs in Asia (not China)	2Hong Kong and Singapore	Not Available
POPs in China	0	Not Available
POPs in Australia	0	Not Available
POPs in South-America	0	Not Available
POPs in Middle-East	0	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	Voxel	Fastly
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	$0.10 per GB	$0.12 per GB
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	$0.05 per GB, at 500 TB per month	$0.02 per GB, at 5000 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	No extra charge	733%Negotiable
Storage	$0.20 per GB per monthIt's actually $0.00027/GB per hour or $0.20/GB per 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	Voxel	Fastly
Origin-Pull
Push (upload to CDN servers)
Purge		Purging can only done by API.
Purge All		Purging can only done by API.
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	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	It is possible to very specifically alter 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	CNAME is not possible for secure webpages (SSL)
HTTPS	Voxel charges $99 per month extra for handling traffic over SSL. A custom CNAME is not possible for secure pages.	Fastly charges $500 setup plus $100/month for custom SSL domain.
Control Panel & statistics
Access Logs	Rsynch for the log files is supported.	Raw log files can be streamed via socket.io or rsyslog. Fastly can also periodically dump them to Amazon S3 buckets.
API	Purge objects from VoxCAST's cache. Adjust the configuration of your VoxCAST CDN to change parameters like cache expiration time; origin settings; log formats; etc.
Support	Voxel believes in providing exceptional "Zero Bureaucracy" support to all customers and they handle support 24/7/365 from their New York and Singapore offices, phone and email. Response time depends on the type of issue and is generally within the hour.

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