Company

Company	Tencent Cloud	CDNvideo
Short profile	Tencent Cloud is a leading global CDN that has resources distributed in 50+ countries and the highest service volume of all CDNs in Asia. It has a massive network with 1,100+ nodes in mainland China, extending beyond major ISPs to more than a dozen local providers.	CDNvideo is a global CDN provider with a wide network of servers located on five continents and a part of Wangsu group owning the second largest CDN in the world (>86K servers + bandwidth of 42 TB/sec). Their specialties are live streaming, VoD, HTTP caching, transcoding and website acceleration. CDNvideo has developed an unlimited cloud storage and an HTML5 player enabling P2P streaming and 360-degree video demonstration.

Products

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Product	Tencent Cloud	CDNvideo
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ...	ECDN (Enterprise CDN)	Acceleration of non-cacheable dynamic content
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB)	CDN	Website acceleration
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)	CDN
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing?	LVB (Live Video Broadcast )	Live Streaming
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video	VOD	Video On Demand
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization		Image optim
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain	DNSpod	Managed cloud-based authoritative DNS
WAFWeb Application Firewall	WAF	Cloud WAF
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this.	Anti-DDoS Advanced Anti-DDoS Pro also available	Network and Application Anti-DDoS
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs		White Label
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers	Serverless Cloud Function	K8S and Docker container orchestration

Network

Region	Tencent Cloud	CDNvideo
North America	11	13
Latin America	2	7
Europe	6	11
Russia & CIS	1	37
Asia excl. China	21	23
China	1100	100
Oceania	1	4
Middle-East	4	8
Africa	1	7

Pricing

Pricing & contract duration	Tencent Cloud	CDNvideo
Minimum contract term	None	1 month
Minimum monthly costs	None	$50
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	None	None
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	None	None
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	$0.045 per GB	$0.05
APAC traffic (low volume)	$0.067 - $0.09 per GB (varies per region)	$0.05
LATAM traffic (low volume)	$0.11 per GB	$0.05

Features

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• = Sort of/partially
• = No
• = Extra costs
• = Unknown

Web acceleration	Tencent Cloud	CDNvideo
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.	Self-service, credit card required	5 minutes
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	5 minutes	5 minutes
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Use DNSPod for DNS	Non-Anycasted network
HTTP/2
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	Resend from origin, or compress on edge Fetch compressed or uncompressed from origin (configurable)	Resend from origin only Does not compress on the edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP, HTTPS, match protocol	HTTP and HTTPS. IP address as origin is possible
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?	Can be IP address or hostname Can be same host as in client-to-CDN requests	Configure specific other Host header CDN can also forward client request Host header to origin
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP	Custom implementation by Tencent DevOps team
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin	Cloud Object Storage with free tier. Upload in the portal or via API	Upload via web interface. Storage costs apply
Cache control - CDN caching	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	Serve stale if origin sends 5xx
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	5 minutes	Purging takes a few minutes
Purge - capabilities	Purge all, purge by directory	Purge all but not purge by directory or tag or header
Analytics	Many metrics available in console and via API	1-5 minutes delay
Log files	W3C formatted. Available for download in console and via API. Log roll period and delay depends on traffic volume.	Download from the UI Logs are ~ 30 minutes delayed
API	Purge, configuration, analytics, logs	Purge, analytics and configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection	Tencent Cloud	CDNvideo
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net		Free
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate	SNI. First 20 DV certs are free. Wildcard allowed TrustAsia is the Certificate Authority	Free
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN	SNI and free. Wildcard allowed.
Token authentication	4 types of token/URL signing available
Geo blocking	Not self-service, support is needed
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content	Based on Referrer or IP address
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content
IP white/blacklisting	Console and API. Block/allow individual IPs and IP ranges

Support

Customer support	Tencent Cloud	CDNvideo
Documentation	Good, extensive and public documentation	Yes, the Starters Guide is available to the public
Humans	24/7 support via the console. Multiple VIP support packages are available	All customers get 24/7 email, Skype and phone support