Easily compare Medianova and Leaseweb 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 | Leaseweb |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | 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. |
Products
| Product | Medianova | Leaseweb |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | Dynamic Site Acceleration | |
| Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | Content Delivery and Optimization | |
| Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | ||
| Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | Internet Live Streaming | |
| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Video on Demand | |
| 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. | DDoS IP Protection | |
| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | Private CDN | Private CDN |
| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
Network
How many POP locations do Medianova and Leaseweb have in different parts of the world?
| Region | Medianova | Leaseweb |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 9 | 6 |
| Latin America | 1 | 0 |
| Europe | 11 | 6 |
| Russia & CIS | 1 | 0 |
| Asia excl. China | 1 | 2 |
| China | 0 | 0 |
| Oceania | 0 | 0 |
| Middle East | 7 | 0 |
| Africa | 1 | 0 |
Pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | Medianova | Leaseweb |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | 1 month | One month |
| Minimum monthly costs | Varies by product and service | $49 |
| 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) | Confidential, market competitive | $0.06 per GB |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | Confidential, market competitive | $0.06 per GB |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | Not applicable | $0.06 per GB |
Features
| Web acceleration | Medianova | Leaseweb |
|---|---|---|
| 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? | One to three minutes | Instant |
Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
No global Anycast | |
| HTTP/2 | ||
| HTTP/3 | ||
| WebSockets | ||
| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | ||
| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Compress on the fly. Brotli support! | Resend from origin or compress on the 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? | Can be different from origin host | |
| 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 | Can set max-age override and set 404 caching TTL | |
| Cache control - client caching | ||
| Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble |
Cache-Control extensions support | CDN serves cached if origin is down |
| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
Instant. Purge all may take up to 1 minute | Instant most of the time |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge file paths, purge all | Purge per file and purge all |
| Analytics | Near real-time | Bandwidth, geo distribution and more |
| Log files | Not by default, only on request | One hour delay. Fetch via FTP |
| API | Purge, analytics, configuration, encoding | Purge, analytics, configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | Medianova | Leaseweb |
|---|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | Free (not SNI) | Free. SNI |
| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | ||
| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | SNI | Free. 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 | Leaseweb |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, public | Yes, public KB |
| Humans | All customers get 24/7 email support with 3 minutes response time and access to Technical Account Managers | 24/7 personal support via telephone and email. |