BelugaCDN launched their services in 2015 and is a pay-as-you-go, low-cost CDN provider. They have a full-featured IPv4+IPv6 network and POPs on 5 continents.
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BelugaCDN Products
BelugaCDN is about straightforward caching and content delivery. Small file, large file, downloads and video.
View the table below for more insight into BelugaCDN products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
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Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | ||
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | ||
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | ||
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | Only delivery of the HTTP video streams, no transcoding or transmuxing | |
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Pseudo-streaming (progressive streaming), byte range requests support | |
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | ||
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | ||
WAFWeb Application Firewall | ||
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | ||
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | Available upon request. Extra costs apply | |
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
BelugaCDN Network
BelugaCDN has a focus on North America and Europe. The other POPs are small capacity and turned on for specific customers only. BelugaCDN plans to upgrade the Bangalore and Singapore POPs to become high-capacity 'SuperPOPs' in 2017.
BelugaCDN network map
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country
* = planned POPs
** = multiple POPs
North America | 13 locations in 2 countries | ||
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United States | Atlanta - Chicago - Dallas - Miami - Newark - New York - Palo Alto - San Jose - Seattle - Washington DC - Weehawken | |
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Canada | Quebec City - Toronto | |
Latin America | 1 location in 1 country | ||
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Brazil | São Paulo | |
Europe | 4 locations in 4 countries | ||
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Germany | Frankfurt | |
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United Kingdom | London | |
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Netherlands | Amsterdam | |
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Sweden | Stockholm | |
Russia & CIS | No edge servers | ||
Asia excl. China | 5 locations in 5 countries | ||
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Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
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Japan | Tokyo | |
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India | Bangalore | |
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South Korea | Seoul | |
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Singapore | Singapore | |
China | No edge servers | ||
Oceania | 1 location in 1 country | ||
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Australia | Sydney | |
Middle East | No edge servers | ||
Africa | No edge servers |
BelugaCDN Pricing
BelugaCDN offers their CDN services without long term contracts. The cheapest plan is $5/m and gets you 500 GB at $0.01 per GB. At high volume plans the per GB price drops to $0.005. Note: this pricing applies to traffic delivered from their North-America and Europe POPs.
BelugaCDN pricing plans
Pricing & contract duration | ||
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Minimum contract term | None | |
Minimum monthly costs | $5 | |
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | 5000 requests per GB included. Overages $0.0035 per 10k requests | |
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | None | |
NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0.01 per GB | |
APAC traffic (low volume) | Unknown | |
LATAM traffic (low volume) | Unknown |
BelugaCDN Features
BelugaCDN features include real-time log streaming, instant purging, free SSL/TLS on customer domain, token authentication, transfer speed rate limiting and full dual-stack network (IPv4 + IPv6 everywhere). BelugaCDN is one of few CDNs that completely supports all five SSL extensions: OCSP stapling, HTTP/2, ALPN, dynamic record sizing, perfect forward secrecy. Learn more. BelugaCDN offers a Grafana App for viewing CDN usage metrics.
View the tables below for more insight into the features BelugaCDN supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
Web acceleration | ||
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Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. | ||
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? | Often instant, sometimes a few minutes | |
Apex/root domain OK
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Global Anycasted IP available, but Beluga recommends against it | |
HTTP/2 | ||
HTTP/3 | ||
WebSockets
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IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | ||
Compression
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Compress on the fly | |
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? | HTTP and HTTPS. | |
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? | ||
Origin Shield
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Available upon request | |
Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room | ||
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin | Available upon request | |
Cache control - CDN caching | Honor origin sent headers or configure overrides | |
Cache control - client caching | ||
Serve Stale
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Purge
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Instant | |
Purge - capabilities | Purge all and purge using regex | |
Analytics | All metrics are aggregated every 10 seconds, exported in real-time | |
Log files | Real-time export to Elastic Search or Redis. FTP. |
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API | Purge, analytics, configuration |
HTTPS & Content Protection | ||
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CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | ||
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | ||
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | Free (SNI) |
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Token authentication | ||
Geo blocking | ||
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | ||
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | ||
IP white/blacklisting |
BelugaCDN Support
Documentation | Yes, public | |
Human support | Basic support (setup & troubleshooting: M-F, 9AM-5PM EST) is included for all accounts. Platinum (monthly spend more than $500) accounts receive priority. Enterprise customers receive phone support (w/ custom SLA). | |
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