BelugaCDN - CDN Planet

Company

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.
BelugaCDN website

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.
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Product
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

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

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Region	POP Locations	Cities
North America	13	Atlanta - Chicago - Dallas - Miami - Newark - New York - Palo Alto - San Jose - Seattle - Washington DC - Weehawken Quebec City - Toronto
Latin America	1	São Paulo
Europe	4	Frankfurt London Amsterdam Stockholm
Russia & CIS	0
Asia excl. China	5	Hong Kong Tokyo Bangalore Seoul Singapore
China	0
Oceania	1	Sydney
Middle-East	0
Africa	0

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
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

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.
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Web acceleration
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 No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Global Anycasted IP available, but Beluga recommends against it
HTTP/2
WebSockets
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	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 ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP	Available upon request
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 CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	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. 10 million requests/month free, $0.50/million events exported overage
API	Purge, analytics, configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection
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) TLS support includes full TLS Dynamic Record Sizing and ECDSA support per Q1 2017
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

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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