Comparison of the Voxel and NetDNA CDNs

In the tables below you can easily compare Voxel 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 Voxel NetDNA
POPs in North-America 16HelpNew York (8x), New Jersey (2x), Ashburn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Jose and Palo Alto 8HelpPOPs 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 3HelpLondon, Amsterdam (2x) 2HelpPOPs in Amsterdam and London. NetDNA also has peer locations in Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
POPs in Asia (not China) 2HelpHong Kong and Singapore 2HelpThe POP in Hong Kong was launched in October 2011 and Singapore launched Q1 2012..
POPs in China 0 0
POPs in Australia 0 0HelpAn 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 NetDNA
Price US/EU traffic - low volume $0.10 per GB $0.06 per GBHelpNetDNA 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 $0.05 per GB, at 500 TB per month $0.01 per GB, at 5000 TB per monthHelpThe 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 No extra charge 67%
Storage $0.20 per GB per monthHelpIt's actually $0.00027/GB per hour or $0.20/GB per month. 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 Voxel NetDNA
Origin-Pull Yes Yes
Push (upload to CDN servers) Yes Yes
Purge Yes Yes
Purge All Yes Yes
Gzip Only if origin server does Gzip The CDN handles the gzippingHelpYou 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 Yes Yes
Honors all origin server headers Yes Yes
Can override origin server headers YesHelpIt is possible to very specifically alter headers. Yes
Set caching headers for pushed files Yes Yes
Custom CNAMEs YesHelpCNAME is not possible for secure webpages (SSL) Yes
HTTPS YesHelpVoxel charges $99 per month extra for handling traffic over SSL. A custom CNAME is not possible for secure pages. YesHelpNetDNA customers get custom CNAMEs for HTTPS pages for free.
Control Panel & statistics Yes Yes
Access Logs YesHelpRsynch for the log files is supported. NoHelpNetDNA is working on providing access logs and it should be available in the near future.
API YesHelpPurge objects from VoxCAST's cache. Adjust the configuration of your VoxCAST CDN to change parameters like cache expiration time; origin settings; log formats; etc. Yes
Support YesHelpVoxel 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. YesHelpYou get direct contact info for engineers and support personnel.
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