Easily compare ChinaCache and Bunny CDN 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 | ChinaCache | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| Short profile | Founded in 1998, publicly traded on NASDAQ (CCIH), ChinaCache is the first CDN in China and generally considered to be one of the better CDNs for China delivery because of their network, knowledge and experience from working with (enterprise) multinational customers. The ChinaCache network and services are not limited to mainland China and ChinaCache has been growing steadily outside China in the past years. | Bunny CDN is CDN with POPs on 6 continents, all the modern content delivery features and prices that are low compared to other CDNs. |
Products
| Product | ChinaCache | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | Dynamic Content Acceleration | |
| Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | Static Content Acceleration | |
| Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | Download Acceleration | |
| Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | Media Acceleration | |
| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Media Acceleration | Bunny Stream |
| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | Bunny Optimizer | |
| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | Bunny DNS | |
| WAFWeb Application Firewall | ||
| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | DDoS Protection As Standard | |
| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | ||
| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
Network
How many POP locations do ChinaCache and Bunny CDN have in different parts of the world?
| Region | ChinaCache | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 8 | 22 |
| Latin America | 1 | 16 |
| Europe | 3 | 32 |
| Russia & CIS | 0 | 10 |
| Asia excl. China | 10 | 19 |
| China | 400 | 0 |
| Oceania | 0 | 6 |
| Middle East | 1 | 7 |
| Africa | 1 | 7 |
Pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | ChinaCache | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | 12 months | None |
| Minimum monthly costs | Unknown | $10 per year recharge |
| Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | None | None |
| Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | Unknown | None |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | Unknown | $0.01 per GB |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | Unknown | $0.03 per GB |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | Unknown | $0.045 per GB |
Features
| Web acceleration | ChinaCache | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. | ||
| Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? | <5 minutes | 10 seconds |
Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
Non-Anycasted network | |
| HTTP/2 | ||
| HTTP/3 | ||
| WebSockets | ||
| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | At customer request | |
| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Compress on the fly. Brotli | |
| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? | HTTP and HTTPS | HTTP or HTTPS or Match protocol |
| 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
|
Hostname or IP address. Can configure specific other Host header |
| Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP | Only two locations | |
| Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room | ||
| Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin | Upload to central storage in Germany (CDN pulls from this). $0.01/GB | |
| Cache control - CDN caching |
CDN can honor origin headers
Custom rules can be set by CDN support team
|
Honor origin sent headers or configure overrides |
| Cache control - client caching | ||
| Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble |
One-click activation | |
| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
<3 minutes delay | Instant |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge all, purge by directory | Purge file, all, by tag, wildcard |
| Analytics | ||
| Log files | Logs are daily or hourly | Accessible via portal and API. Delay is 20-30 seconds. |
| API | Purge, analytics, billing. Not configuration | Purge, analytics, configuration, logs |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | ChinaCache | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | Only for testing | Free. SNI |
| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | Free. SNI | |
| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | Free. SNI | |
| Token authentication | ||
| Geo blocking | Country level blocking (at the DNS level) | |
| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | blocking specific referrers, block requests without referrer, whitelist allowed referrers | |
| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | ||
| IP white/blacklisting |
Support
| Customer support | ChinaCache | Bunny CDN |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, but not public. | Yes, public |
| Humans | Different levels of support are available. | All customers get email support with a 24 hour reply SLA (<4 hour plan to be introduced later in 2019). No phone support. Large customers get access to their Slack channel. |