Easily compare Medianova and ChinaCache 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 | Medianova | ChinaCache |
|---|---|---|
| Short profile | Medianova has grown to become a global, established player with a strong presence in the Middle East and Europe. Medianova uses modern technologies like their patent pending Dockerized CDN Platform, BBR, Brotli and Anycast and offers a wide range of content delivery solutions from their 50+ data centers. | Founded in 1998, publicly traded on NASDAQ (CCIH), ChinaCache is the first CDN in China and generally considered to be one of the better CDNs for China delivery because of their network, knowledge and experience from working with (enterprise) multinational customers. The ChinaCache network and services are not limited to mainland China and ChinaCache has been growing steadily outside China in the past years. |
Products
| Product | Medianova | ChinaCache |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | Dynamic Site Acceleration | Dynamic Content Acceleration |
| Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | Content Delivery and Optimization | Static Content Acceleration |
| Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | Download Acceleration | |
| Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | Internet Live Streaming | Media Acceleration |
| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Video on Demand | Media Acceleration |
| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | Image Optimization | |
| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | ||
| WAFWeb Application Firewall | WAF | |
| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | ||
| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | Private CDN | |
| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
Network
How many POP locations do Medianova and ChinaCache have in different parts of the world?
| Region | Medianova | ChinaCache |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 9 | 8 |
| Latin America | 1 | 1 |
| Europe | 11 | 3 |
| Russia & CIS | 1 | 0 |
| Asia excl. China | 1 | 10 |
| China | 0 | 400 |
| Oceania | 0 | 0 |
| Middle East | 7 | 1 |
| Africa | 1 | 1 |
Pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | Medianova | ChinaCache |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | 1 month | 12 months |
| Minimum monthly costs | Varies by product and service | Unknown |
| Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | Unknown | None |
| Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | Unknown | Unknown |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | Confidential, market competitive | Unknown |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | Confidential, market competitive | Unknown |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | Not applicable | Unknown |
Features
| Web acceleration | Medianova | ChinaCache |
|---|---|---|
| Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. | ||
| Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? | One to three minutes | <5 minutes |
Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
Non-Anycasted network | |
| HTTP/2 | ||
| HTTP/3 | ||
| WebSockets | ||
| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | At customer request | |
| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Compress on the fly. Brotli support! | |
| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? | HTTP and HTTPS | HTTP and HTTPS |
| Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? | Can be different from origin host |
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 | FTP, SFTP, Rsync | |
| Cache control - CDN caching |
CDN can honor origin headers
Custom rules can be set by CDN support team
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| Cache control - client caching | ||
| Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble |
Cache-Control extensions support | |
| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
Instant. Purge all may take up to 1 minute | <3 minutes delay |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge file paths, purge all | Purge all, purge by directory |
| Analytics | Near real-time | |
| Log files | Not by default, only on request | Logs are daily or hourly |
| API | Purge, analytics, configuration, encoding | Purge, analytics, billing. Not configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | Medianova | ChinaCache |
|---|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | Free (not SNI) | Only for testing |
| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | ||
| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | SNI | |
| Token authentication | ||
| Geo blocking | Streaming | |
| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | Streaming | |
| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | ||
| IP white/blacklisting | Streaming |
Support
| Customer support | Medianova | ChinaCache |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, public | Yes, but not public. |
| Humans | All customers get 24/7 email support with 3 minutes response time and access to Technical Account Managers | Different levels of support are available. |