Company
Leaseweb has been an established player in the (enterprise) hosting market for many years and launched their CDN mid 2013. Leaseweb claims 'the most competitive price in the CDN market' and has a reseller program.
Leaseweb website
Products
View the table below for more insight into Leaseweb products.Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
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?
Video on demandDelivery of on demand
video
Image OptimizationAutomatic image
transformation/compression/optimization
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain
WAFWeb Application Firewall
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific
product(s) for this.
DDoS IP Protection
Private CDNDedicated edge resources &
custom configs
Private CDN
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge
servers
Network
Leaseweb has a focus on North America and Europe, plus a few POPs in Asia.Leaseweb 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
6 locations in
1 country
United States
Dallas - Miami - San Jose - Washington D.C. - Seattle - Chicago
Latin America
No edge servers
Europe
6 locations in
6 countries
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Switzerland
Zurich
Germany
Frankfurt
Spain
Madrid
France
Paris
Poland
Warsaw
Russia & CIS
No edge servers
Asia excl. China
2 locations in
2 countries
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Singapore
Singapore
China
No edge servers
Oceania
No edge servers
Middle-East
No edge servers
Africa
No edge servers
Pricing
Leaseweb PAYG pricing
Pricing & contract duration
Minimum contract term
One month
Minimum monthly costs
$49
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests
None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred
None
NA/EU traffic (low volume)
$0.06 per GB
APAC traffic (low volume)
$0.06 per GB
LATAM traffic (low volume)
$0.06 per GB
Features
View the tables below for more insight into the features Leaseweb supports.Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.
Leaseweb needs 1 business day to get you started
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?
Instant
Apex/root domain OK
No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com
No global Anycast
HTTP/2
WebSockets
Technology for bidirectional communication in client-server apps
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression
Reduce file size for faster delivery
Resend from origin or compress on the edge
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
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
Can set max-age override and set 404 caching TTL
Cache control - client caching
Serve Stale
CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble
CDN serves cached if origin is down
Purge
Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN
Instant most of the time
Purge - capabilities
Purge per file and purge all
Analytics
Bandwidth, geo distribution and more
Log files
One hour delay. Fetch via FTP
API
Purge, analytics, configuration
HTTPS & Content Protection
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net
Free. SNI
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN
Free. SNI
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 KB
Human support
24/7 personal support via telephone and email.
Status Page
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No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com