Easily compare Leaseweb and ArvanCloud 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 | Leaseweb | ArvanCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Short profile | 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. | ArvanCloud is global provider of cloud services, including CDN, Security and DNS. ArvanCloud wants to stand out in the CDN market with low pricing and excellent customer support. Their anycasted network has POPs on several continents. Later in 2020 a new POP will launch in Pakistan and ArvanCloud will expand its presence in India and Turkey. |
Products
| Product | Leaseweb | ArvanCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | ||
| Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | CDN | |
| Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | CDN | |
| Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | Live Streaming | |
| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Video Platform | |
| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | ||
| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | Cloud DNS | |
| WAFWeb Application Firewall | Cloud Security | |
| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | DDoS IP Protection | Cloud Security |
| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | Private CDN | |
| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
Network
How many POP locations do Leaseweb and ArvanCloud have in different parts of the world?
| Region | Leaseweb | ArvanCloud |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 6 | 5 |
| Latin America | 0 | 0 |
| Europe | 6 | 6 |
| Russia & CIS | 0 | 0 |
| Asia excl. China | 2 | 6 |
| China | 0 | 0 |
| Oceania | 0 | 1 |
| Middle East | 0 | 7 |
| Africa | 0 | 0 |
Pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | Leaseweb | ArvanCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | One month | None |
| Minimum monthly costs | $49 | None |
| Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | None | $0.0014 per 10k requests |
| Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | None | $0.037 - $0.05 per GB |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0.06 per GB | $0.037 per GB |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | $0.06 per GB | $0.05 per GB |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0.06 per GB | Not applicable |
Features
| Web acceleration | Leaseweb | ArvanCloud |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Instant |
Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
No global Anycast | Anycasted network |
| HTTP/2 | ||
| HTTP/3 | ||
| WebSockets | ||
| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | ||
| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Resend from origin or compress on the edge | Resend from origin, or compress on edge |
| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? | HTTP and HTTPS |
HTTP and HTTPS.
IP address as origin is possible
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| 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
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| Origin ShieldOne 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 | Object Storage service. $0.023 per GB | |
| 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 |
Always Online feature can be turned on.
No Cache-Control extensions support
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| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
Instant most of the time | Purging takes ~10 seconds |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge per file and purge all | Purge all and purge by directory, but not by tag or header |
| Analytics | Bandwidth, geo distribution and more |
Near real-time
Insight into Origin Server Response Time
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| Log files | One hour delay. Fetch via FTP |
Pushed to customer's syslog server in real-time
Free in paid plans
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| API | Purge, analytics, configuration | Purge, analytics and configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | Leaseweb | ArvanCloud |
|---|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | Free. SNI | |
| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | Free. SNI | |
| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | Free. SNI | Free. SNI. EV cert is possible |
| Token authentication | ||
| Geo blocking | Part of the Cloud Security product | |
| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | ||
| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | ||
| IP white/blacklisting | Part of the Cloud Security product |
Support
| Customer support | Leaseweb | ArvanCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, public KB | Yes, public and available in English and Persian/Farsi languages |
| Humans | 24/7 personal support via telephone and email. | Phone support is available. Service level depends on customer's price plan |