BelugaCDN - CDN Planet

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.
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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

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

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^* = planned POPs
^** = multiple POPs

North America	13 locations in 2 countries
		United States	Atlanta - Chicago - Dallas - Miami - Newark - New York - Palo Alto - San Jose - Seattle - Washington DC - Weehawken
		Canada	Quebec City - Toronto
Latin America	1 location in 1 country
		Brazil	São Paulo
Europe	4 locations in 4 countries
		Germany	Frankfurt
		United Kingdom	London
		Netherlands	Amsterdam
		Sweden	Stockholm
Russia & CIS	No edge servers
Asia excl. China	5 locations in 5 countries
		Hong Kong	Hong Kong
		Japan	Tokyo
		India	Bangalore
		South Korea	Seoul
		Singapore	Singapore
China	No edge servers
Oceania	1 location in 1 country
		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
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.

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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
HTTP/3
WebSockets Technology for bidirectional communication in client-server apps
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 Shield One POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP		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 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

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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