Leaseweb - CDN Planet

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.

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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?
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain
WAFWeb Application Firewall	Domain Protection
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

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Locations marked with ^* are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.

Region	POPs	Locations
North America	6	Dallas - Miami - San Jose - Washington D.C. - Seattle - Chicago
Latin America	0
Europe	6	Amsterdam Zurich Frankfurt Madrid Paris Warsaw
Russia & CIS	0
Asia excl. China	2	Hong Kong Singapore
China	0
Oceania	0
Middle-East	0
Africa	0

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.

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= Extra costs
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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
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 ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP
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