The new CDN info

Context

• Be the #1 online resource about CDN, to learn and buy
• Focus on Web acceleration & security, maybe later extend with Video, China, Multi-CDN, Edge Compute

Learn & Buy:

• Learn about new technology, CDN features, tips for perf/sec tuning, etc!
• Buy through us: free assessment, great pricing and extra's (backup CDN, access to tools, pick-my-brain)
• Elite Managed: we manage your CDN, starts at $2500/m

We work with CDNs in 3 ways:

1. Partners: buy their services through us
2. Listing fee: pay us to have a complete profile and keep this up to date, e.g. $2500/yr
3. Free: only a mention in the directory

CDN Planet partners with Edgio, CDNetworks, CacheFly, EdgeNext and a few others (Image CDN?)

Design

• The Buy button is always visible, scrolls down with the user

Overview

Brief pitch/positioing Likes/dislikes Great fit for: X, Y, Z

== The user has a first impression and knows if this CDN seems a good choice.

Pricing

Current template sucks, too restrictive. CDNs vary greatly by price plans/packages, costs structure (GBs, reqs, ...), and more

Partner CDNs: our packages

== The user understands pricing enough to getting ready to engage with CDN/us

Network

• CDN must manage the POP locations & info (how they prove they have multiple POPs in NYC?)
• Must be same as on CDN's website
• Better visualization: world map, show POPs of two CDNs at at time
• More pages: by city, ??

News

Items from the CDN's RSS feed

Automated. Updated daily:

• Cron Trigger: fetch from CDN website RSS feed, transform, store in KV + Website worker reads from KV + Cache API + edge caching ... risk of high Worker costs
• Cron Trigger: Website worker rewrites the 11ty rendered HTML that is stored in KV Assets (possible??)

Output:

• Latest headlines on CDN page, each links out to CDN website
• /cdn-news/ page shows latest headlines for each CDN

Products

Current template sucks, too restrictive. Image Optimization deserves its own section on the site? Guide? Short "What is it" + pricing + link to page on CDN website

Features

What about stuff like Cloudflare Pages, that is not the standard origin pull? Can't cover it all, so how select what to cover? Features they all have?

Health checks, multiple origins & failover, CDN IP ranges, Streaming Miss (large file), error pages with custom responses

Fiddle, origin inspector ... few CDNs have these, so ... list as 'Specials'?

Protocols

HTTP, TLS

SSL/TLS certificates

Options: what, ease-of-use, pricing

Caching

Origin headers honoring/overwrites, header injection, edge caching config, Origin Shield, Serve Stale, Push, prefetch. Purge.

Origin

CDN IP ranges, private connection, multiple origins & failover, Origin Shield

Storage

Push with FTP/... Something special?

Compression

Forward GZip from origin, GZip at the edge, Forward Brotli, Brotli at the edge

Observability

What data? How consume the data? Delay?

API

Portal

Thorough review?

Security

Purge Speed

Config Update Speed