Company
Founded in 2011, Fastly has grown into a mature CDN provider. Fastly offers a range of services including streaming media delivery and private CDN but Fastly is best known for being a 'real-time CDN', meaning changes happen instantly and the platform can deliver 'uncacheable' content well.
Fastly website
Products
On April 18 2017, Fastly unveiled three new products: Web Application Firewall (WAF), Image Optimizer and Load Balancer. Read the press release.
View the table below for more insight into Fastly 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 ... |
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Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) |
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Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) |
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Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? |
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Video on demandDelivery of on demand video |
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Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization |
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DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain |
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WAFWeb Application Firewall |
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Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. |
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Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs |
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Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
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Network
Fastly has POPs in 35 locations on 6 continents, with an exceptionally strong presence in Oceania (6 POPs). In 2017, Fastly plans to launch new POPs in India (Chennai and Mumbai), Israel, US and Canada.
Fastly network map
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country.
Locations marked with * are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.
Pricing
Fastly doesn't require long-term contracts and their pricing is simple and easy to understand, with no hidden costs. You can test up to $50 of traffic for free, no commitment required. Billing is based on number of requests and data transfer and if applicable your TLS/SSL plan. Signup is completely self-service and there is no need to talk to a sales representative. You can get discounted rates based on a commit in an annual contract.
Fastly pricing
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Minimum contract term | None |
Minimum monthly costs | $50 |
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | $0.0075 - $0.016 per 10k requests |
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | None |
NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0.12 per GB |
APAC traffic (low volume) | $0.19 per GB |
LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0.28 per GB |
Features
Features Fastly is proud of are instant configuration updates, instant purging, the ability to cache dynamic content, real-time log streaming and analytics, and traffic spike protection. Customers have the flexibility to customize their Varnish configurations at will.
View the tables below for more insight into the features Fastly supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
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Web acceleration | |
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Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. |
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Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? |
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Apex/root domain OK |
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HTTP/2 |
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IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? |
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Compression |
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Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? |
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Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? |
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Origin Shield |
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Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin |
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Cache control - CDN caching |
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Cache control - client caching |
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Serve Stale |
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Purge |
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Purge - capabilities |
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Analytics |
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Log files |
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API |
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HTTPS & Content Protection | |
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CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net |
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Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate |
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Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN |
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Token authentication |
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Geo blocking |
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Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content |
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Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content |
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IP white/blacklisting |
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Support
Fastly provides a range of support options and paid plans. Free to all is their extensive public documentation and API references as well as the community forum and email support. Customers can pay to upgrade the support level, e.g. to get phone and Slack support, faster responses, outside business hours and dedicated account management.
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Documentation |
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Humans |
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