Easily compare AdvancedHosting and CDNvideo for POP locations, products, pricing, features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these content delivery networks.
Company
| Company | AdvancedHosting | CDNvideo |
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| Short profile | AdvancedHosting provides dedicated servers, cloud servers, cloud storage, CDN, AnycastDNS, DevOps as a Service and domain registration since 2002. The CDN has ~25 POPs on 4 continents, supporting delivery of video and static assets. | CDNvideo is a global CDN provider with a wide network of servers located on five continents and a part of Wangsu group owning the second largest CDN in the world (>86K servers + bandwidth of 42 TB/sec). Their specialties are live streaming, VoD, HTTP caching, transcoding and website acceleration. CDNvideo has developed an unlimited cloud storage and an HTML5 player enabling P2P streaming and 360-degree video demonstration. |
Products
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= Sort of/partially
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| Product | AdvancedHosting | CDNvideo |
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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) |
CDN for Static Content
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Website acceleration
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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? |
CDN for Video
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Live Streaming
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| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video |
CDN for Video
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Video On Demand
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| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization |
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| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain |
Anycast DNS
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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
| Region | AdvancedHosting | CDNvideo |
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| North America | 9 | 13 |
| Latin America | 2 | 7 |
| Europe | 9 | 11 |
| Russia & CIS | 1 | 37 |
| Asia excl. China | 3 | 23 |
| China | 0 | 100 |
| Oceania | 0 | 4 |
| Middle-East | 0 | 8 |
| Africa | 0 | 7 |
Pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | AdvancedHosting | CDNvideo |
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| Minimum contract term | None | 1 month |
| Minimum monthly costs | $0.01 | $50 |
| Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | None | None |
| Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | Yes | None |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0.025 per GB or $0.5 per Mbps | $0.05 |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | $0.025 per GB or $0.5 per Mbps | $0.05 |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0.025 per GB or $0.5 per Mbps | $0.05 |
Features
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| Web acceleration | AdvancedHosting | CDNvideo |
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| Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. |
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5 minutes
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| Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? |
2 to 3 minutes (video takes longer)
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5 minutes
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Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
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Non-Anycasted network
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| HTTP/2 |
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| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? |
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| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Resend from origin only
Does not compress on the edge
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Resend from origin only
Does not compress on the edge
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| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? |
HTTP and HTTPS
Video: only pull over HTTP
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HTTP and HTTPS.
IP address as origin is possible
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| Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? |
Can be different from origin host
Video: only origin Host
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Configure specific other Host header
CDN can also forward client request Host header to origin
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| Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP |
Free.
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| Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin |
$25/TB
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Upload via web interface. Storage costs apply
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| Cache control - CDN caching |
Origin or CDN controlled
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| Cache control - client caching |
Origin or CDN controlled
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| Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble |
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| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
A few minutes
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Purging takes a few minutes
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| Purge - capabilities |
Purge specific files, purge all (not for VideoCDN)
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Purge all but not purge by directory or tag or header
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| Analytics |
Cache hit ratio and error rate not yet available
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1-5 minutes delay
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| Log files |
Available on request (support ticket)
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Download from the UI
Logs are ~ 30 minutes delayed
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| API |
Purge, analytics, configuration
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Purge, analytics and configuration
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| HTTPS & Content Protection | AdvancedHosting | CDNvideo |
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| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net |
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Free
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| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate |
Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal. CDN handles all.
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Free
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| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN |
Can be an EV certificate. Free.
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| Token authentication |
Antihotlink protection
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| Geo blocking |
VideoCDN only
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| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content |
Set allow and/or block list.
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| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content |
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| IP white/blacklisting |
VideoCDN only
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Support
| Customer support | AdvancedHosting | CDNvideo |
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| Documentation |
API docs and VoD API docs
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Yes, the Starters Guide is available to the public
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| Humans |
Ticket system, Skype and email support is free.
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All customers get 24/7 email, Skype and phone support
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