Easily compare Lumen 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 | Lumen | ArvanCloud |
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Short profile | Lumen (formerly known as Centurlink or Level 3) owns and operates a global Tier-1 network and - logically - their CDN runs on top of it. Lumen CDN has POPs on many continents and their product focus is on video, large object delivery and edge computing. | 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
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Product | Lumen | ArvanCloud |
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Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... |
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Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) |
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Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) |
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Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? |
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Video on demandDelivery of on demand video |
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Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization |
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DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain |
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WAFWeb Application Firewall |
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Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. |
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Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs |
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Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
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Network
Region | Lumen | ArvanCloud |
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North America | 32 | 5 |
Latin America | 11 | 0 |
Europe | 36 | 6 |
Russia & CIS | 0 | 0 |
Asia excl. China | 6 | 6 |
China | 0 | 0 |
Oceania | 1 | 1 |
Middle-East | 4 | 7 |
Africa | 2 | 0 |
Pricing
Pricing & contract duration | Lumen | ArvanCloud |
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Minimum contract term | Unknown | None |
Minimum monthly costs | Unknown | None |
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | Unknown | $0.0014 per 10k requests |
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | Unknown | $0.037 - $0.05 per GB |
NA/EU traffic (low volume) | Unknown | $0.037 per GB |
APAC traffic (low volume) | Unknown | $0.05 per GB |
LATAM traffic (low volume) | Unknown | Not applicable |
Features
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Web acceleration | Lumen | ArvanCloud |
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Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. |
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Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? |
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Apex/root domain OK |
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HTTP/2 |
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IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? |
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Compression |
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Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? |
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Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? |
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Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP |
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Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin |
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Cache control - CDN caching |
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Cache control - client caching |
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Serve Stale |
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Purge |
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Purge - capabilities |
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Analytics |
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Log files |
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API |
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HTTPS & Content Protection | Lumen | ArvanCloud |
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CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net |
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Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate |
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Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN |
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Token authentication |
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Geo blocking |
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Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content |
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Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content |
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IP white/blacklisting |
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Support
Customer support | Lumen | ArvanCloud |
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Documentation |
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Humans |
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