Company

Company	CDNetworks	Leaseweb
Short profile	Founded in 2000, CDNetworks has been in the content delivery space longer than most other CDNs. CDNetworks always had, and still has, a strong focus on emerging markets like Brazil and Russia. CDNetworks has a wide range of content delivery/acceleration and security products.	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.

Products

Product	CDNetworks	Leaseweb
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 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

Network

Region	CDNetworks	Leaseweb
North America	11	6
Latin America	7	0
Europe	13	6
Russia & CIS	17	0
Asia, excl China	19	2
China	20	0
Oceania	1	0
Middle-East	9	0
Africa	4	0

Pricing

Pricing & contract duration	CDNetworks	Leaseweb
Minimum contract term	12 months	One month
Minimum monthly costs	Unknown	$49
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	Unknown	None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	Unknown	None
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	Unknown	$0.06 per GB
APAC traffic (low volume)	Unknown	$0.06 per GB
LATAM traffic (low volume)	Unknown	$0.06 per GB

Features

Web acceleration	CDNetworks	Leaseweb
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.	Can't sign up and get started. Must talk to sales.	Leaseweb needs 1 business day to get you started
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	~ 15 minutes	Instant
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Non-Anycasted network	No global Anycast
HTTP/2
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	Resend from origin or compress on edge	Resend from origin or compress on the edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP and HTTPS	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 shieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP	Multiple POPs can act as shield
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin
Cache control - CDN caching	Full and granular control	Can set max-age override and set 404 caching TTL
Cache control - client caching	Full and granular control
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	Completion time is 5 - 10 minutes	Instant most of the time
Purge - capabilities	Purge all, purge by directory, by file extension	Purge per file and purge all
Analytics		Bandwidth, geo distribution and more
Log files		One hour delay. Fetch via FTP
API	Purge, analytics, configuration	Purge, analytics, configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection	CDNetworks	Leaseweb
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

Customer support	CDNetworks	Leaseweb
Documentation	Yes, but not public	Yes, public KB
Humans	All customers get 24/7 email and phone support	24/7 personal support via telephone and email.