Comparison of the Voxel and MaxCDN CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Voxel 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	Voxel	MaxCDN
POPs in North-America	16New York (8x), New Jersey (2x), Ashburn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Jose and Palo Alto	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, Amsterdam (2x)	2Max CDN also has peer locations in Amsterdam (3x), London and Frankfurt.
POPs in Asia (not China)	2Hong Kong and Singapore	2Edge POPs are in Hong Kong and Singapore.
POPs in China	0	0
POPs in Australia	0	0An edge location is planned in Sydney, Australia.
POPs in South-America	0	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	Voxel	MaxCDN
Price US/EU traffic - low volume	$0.10 per GB	$0.10 per GB, at 1 TB per month
Price US/EU traffic - high volume	$0.05 per GB, at 500 TB per month	$0.08 per GB, at 25 TB per month
Extra charge for APAC region traffic	No extra charge	No extra charge
Storage	$0.20 per GB per monthIt's actually $0.00027/GB per hour or $0.20/GB per month.	10 Gigabytes is $9.95/mPrice per GB drops as volume goes up. E.g. 100 Gigabytes costs $69.95 a month.

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	MaxCDN
Origin-Pull
Push (upload to CDN servers)		SCP, SFTP & Rsync.
Purge
Purge All
Gzip	Only if origin server does Gzip	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	It is possible to very specifically alter headers.
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.	MaxCDN provides free shared SSL.
Control Panel & statistics
Access Logs	Rsynch for the log files is supported.
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.	XML-RPC API.
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.	MaxCDN experts are available by phone Monday-Friday, 9am-7pm (PST), but email and ticket support are available 24/7.

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