Easily compare Leaseweb and CDN77 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 | CDN77 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CDN77 provides a solid set of content delivery products and solutions all over the world, with over 136 POPs and local caches on 6 continents. It delivers content for 6 out of 50 most visited websites worldwide and offers features such as TLS 1.3, Gzip compression and HTTP/3. They also offer real-time support provided by in-house engineers 24/7 |
Products
| Product | Leaseweb | CDN77 |
|---|---|---|
| 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? | Live streaming | |
| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Video delivery | |
| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | ||
| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | ||
| WAFWeb Application Firewall | ||
| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | DDoS IP Protection | DDOS Mitigation |
| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | Private CDN | Private CDN |
| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
Network
How many POP locations do Leaseweb and CDN77 have in different parts of the world?
| Region | Leaseweb | CDN77 |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 6 | 12 |
| Latin America | 0 | 7 |
| Europe | 6 | 19 |
| Russia & CIS | 0 | 3 |
| Asia excl. China | 2 | 5 |
| China | 0 | 0 |
| Oceania | 0 | 1 |
| Middle East | 0 | 6 |
| Africa | 0 | 1 |
Pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | Leaseweb | CDN77 |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | One month | 1 month |
| Minimum monthly costs | $49 | $990/m |
| Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | None | None |
| Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | None | None |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0.06 per GB | $0.004 per GB |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | $0.06 per GB | $0.004 per GB |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0.06 per GB | $0.004 per GB |
Features
| Web acceleration | Leaseweb | CDN77 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 minutes |
Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
No global Anycast | Non-Anycasted network |
| HTTP/2 | ||
| HTTP/3 | ||
| WebSockets | ||
| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | Full IPv6 support on the whole network | |
| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Resend from origin or compress on the edge |
Compress on the fly.
Origin gets requests for uncompressed
|
| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? | HTTP and HTTPS |
HTTP and HTTPS.
Custom port number can be configured
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| Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? | Possible to set a specific Host header for communications with origin | |
| Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP | Free. Multilayer CDN architecture with multiple origin shield locations | |
| Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room | ||
| Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin | Extra costs. S3-compatible API | |
| Cache control - CDN caching | Can set max-age override and set 404 caching TTL | Origin sent headers override CDN config rules |
| Cache control - client caching | Their support team is needed | |
| Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble |
CDN serves cached if origin is down | Cache-Control extensions support |
| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
Instant most of the time | Purge Speed |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge per file and purge all | Purge all, specific URL or wildcard |
| Analytics | Bandwidth, geo distribution and more | 5 to 10 minutes delayed. |
| Log files | One hour delay. Fetch via FTP |
$49/month/CDN Resource. FTP, SFTP, rsync.
Logs are only 5 minutes delayed
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| API | Purge, analytics, configuration | Purge, analytics, configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | Leaseweb | CDN77 |
|---|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | Free. SNI | Free (not SNI) |
| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | Let's Encrypt is free (SNI), or $99/year for SAN in their cert (no SNI) | |
| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | Free. SNI | Free (SNI) |
| Token authentication | ||
| Geo blocking | Can be enabled in client portal | |
| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | ||
| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | Can be enabled in client portal | |
| IP white/blacklisting | Can be enabled in client portal |
Support
| Customer support | Leaseweb | CDN77 |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, public KB | Yes, public. API docs |
| Humans | 24/7 personal support via telephone and email. | All customers get real-time 24/7 support via email, phone, chat and Skype. |