Easily compare Lumen 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 | Lumen | Bunny CDN |
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Short profile | Lumen (formerly known as Centurylink 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. | 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 | Lumen | Bunny CDN |
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Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | CDN Edge Compute | |
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | CDN and/or CDN Edge Compute | |
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | ||
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | CDN and/or CDN Mesh Delivery | |
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | CDN and/or CDN Mesh Delivery | Bunny Stream |
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | part of CDN Edge Compute | Bunny Optimizer |
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | Bunny DNS | |
WAFWeb Application Firewall | WAF | |
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | Lumen DDoS Hyper (on-demand) and DDoS Mitigation Service | DDoS Protection As Standard |
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | CDN Mesh Delivery for Enterprise | |
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers | Edge Compute |
Network
How many POP locations do Lumen and Bunny CDN have in different parts of the world?
Region | Lumen | Bunny CDN |
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North America | 28 | 22 |
Latin America | 11 | 16 |
Europe | 35 | 32 |
Russia & CIS | 0 | 10 |
Asia excl. China | 7 | 19 |
China | 0 | 0 |
Oceania | 5 | 6 |
Middle East | 4 | 7 |
Africa | 3 | 7 |
Pricing
Pricing & contract duration | Lumen | Bunny CDN |
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Minimum contract term | Unknown | None |
Minimum monthly costs | Unknown | $10 per year recharge |
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | Unknown | 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 | Lumen | Bunny CDN |
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Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. | Not yet, but coming soon. | |
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? | No longer than 15 minutes - Often instant | 10 seconds |
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com | Available with Section product for an additional fee | |
HTTP/2 | ||
HTTP/3 | ||
WebSockets | ||
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | ||
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery | Resend from origin, or compress on edge | 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
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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 | FTP, SFTP, rsync. Storage costs apply | Upload to central storage in Germany (CDN pulls from this). $0.01/GB |
Cache control - CDN caching | 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 | Instant | Instant |
Purge - capabilities | Purge all but not purge by directory or tag or header | Purge file, all, by tag, wildcard |
Analytics | ||
Log files | Accessible via portal and API. Delay is 20-30 seconds. | |
API | Purge, analytics, configuration | Purge, analytics, configuration, logs |
HTTPS & Content Protection | Lumen | Bunny CDN |
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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 | |
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 | Lumen | Bunny CDN |
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Documentation | Yes, but not public | Yes, public |
Humans | 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. |