ChinaCache - CDN Planet

Company

Founded in 1998, publicly traded on NASDAQ (CCIH), ChinaCache is the first CDN in China and generally considered to be one of the better CDNs for China delivery because of their network, knowledge and experience from working with (enterprise) multinational customers. The ChinaCache network and services are not limited to mainland China and ChinaCache has been growing steadily outside China in the past years.
ChinaCache website

Products

ChinaCache has a range of content delivery & acceleration products, including streaming media.

View the table below for more insight into ChinaCache products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.

Yes

Sort of/partially

Extra costs

Unknown

Product
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ...		Dynamic Content Acceleration
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB)		Static Content Acceleration
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)		Download Acceleration
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing?		Media Acceleration
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video		Media Acceleration
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
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers

Network

ChinaCache has many POPs inside China and claims to be the #1 CDN there. Outside China, ChinaCache has good coverage in Asia and US, plus a few POPs in Europe and one in Brazil.
ChinaCache 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	8 locations in 1 country
		United States	Chicago - Dallas - Los Angeles - Miami - New York - San Jose - Seattle - Washington D.C.
Latin America	1 location in 1 country
		Brazil	São Paulo
Europe	3 locations in 3 countries
		Germany	Frankfurt
		France	Paris
		United Kingdom	London
Russia & CIS	No edge servers
Asia excl. China	10 locations in 9 countries
		Hong Kong	Hong Kong
		Japan	Tokyo
		Indonesia	Jakarta
		Cambodia	Phnom Penh
		South Korea	Seoul
		Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar
		Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur
		Singapore	Singapore
		Taiwan	Kaohsiung - Taipei
China	400 locations in 1 country
		China	All major cities and provinces in China
Oceania	No edge servers
Middle-East	1 location in 1 country
		Qatar	Doha
Africa	1 location in 1 country
		Tanzania	Dar es Salaam

Pricing

ChinaCache typically requires annual contracts with pricing depending on traffic volume and what features/services you need. Get in touch to learn more about their services and prices.
ChinaCache contact form

Pricing & contract duration
Minimum contract term		12 months
Minimum monthly costs		Unknown
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests		None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred		Unknown
NA/EU traffic (low volume)		Unknown
APAC traffic (low volume)		Unknown
LATAM traffic (low volume)		Unknown

Features

View the tables below for more insight into the features ChinaCache supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.

Yes

Sort of/partially

Extra costs

Unknown

Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?		<5 minutes
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com		Non-Anycasted network
HTTP/2
WebSockets Technology for bidirectional communication in client-server apps
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?		At customer request
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery		Resend, or compress on edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?		HTTP and HTTPS
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?		Configure specific other Host header CDN can also forward client request Host header to origin
Origin Shield One POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP
Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin
Cache control - CDN caching		CDN can honor origin headers Custom rules can be set by CDN support team
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		<3 minutes delay
Purge - capabilities		Purge all, purge by directory
Analytics
Log files		Logs are daily or hourly
API		Purge, analytics, billing. Not configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net		Only for testing
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN
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, but not public.
Human support		Different levels of support are available.
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