Company

Company	Leaseweb	Verizon Media
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.	The Verizon Media Platform is a division of Verizon. In 2013, Verizon acquired EdgeCast's Content Delivery Network (CDN) along with upLynk's video workflow technology to create a next-generation platform. This platform streamlines the streaming video workflow including encoding, SSAI and delivery, plus accelerates and secures websites and content for broadcasters, retailers and enterprises.

Products

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Product	Leaseweb	Verizon Media
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ...		Network
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB)		Network
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)		Network
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing?		Live Events
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video		Encode
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization		Dynamic Imaging
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain		DNS
WAFWeb Application Firewall	Domain Protection	Web Application Firewall
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this.	DDoS IP Protection	DDoS
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs	Private CDN
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers		Edge Compute Rules and Lua scripting

Network

Region	Leaseweb	Verizon Media
North America	6	18
Latin America	0	13
Europe	6	15
Russia & CIS	0	0
Asia excl. China	2	12
China	0	100
Oceania	0	3
Middle-East	0	3
Africa	0	2

Pricing

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

Features

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• = Extra costs
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Web acceleration	Leaseweb	Verizon Media
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.	Leaseweb needs 1 business day to get you started	Available through Microsoft Azure
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	Instant	A few minutes
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	No global Anycast	Anycasted network (regional)
HTTP/2
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
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?		Configure specific other Host header
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP		Single POP shield or multiple. Full control
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin		Origin Storage
Cache control - CDN caching	Can set max-age override and set 404 caching TTL	Full and granular control
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	Instant most of the time	No longer than 1 min, often much faster
Purge - capabilities	Purge per file and purge all	Purge all, purge by directory, by file extension
Analytics	Bandwidth, geo distribution and more	Real-time, with many metrics in the UI
Log files	One hour delay. Fetch via FTP	< 60 seconds
API	Purge, analytics, configuration	Purge, analytics, configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection	Leaseweb	Verizon Media
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net	Free. SNI
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate		Non-SNI. Pricing is custom. Wildcard possible
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN	Free. SNI	Pricing is custom
Token authentication		Included as core feature
Geo blocking		Included as core feature
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content		Included as core feature
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content		Supported via special configuration
IP white/blacklisting		Included as core feature

Support

Customer support	Leaseweb	Verizon Media
Documentation	Yes, public KB	Yes, public
Humans	24/7 personal support via telephone and email.	All customers get 24/7 email and phone support.