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EdgeCast is a content delivery network (CDN) that helps companies accelerate and deliver static and dynamic content to end users around the world. Major customers include Yahoo!, Tumblr, Pinterest, Wordpress, and Imgur. The company has about 4,500 customers (as of June 2012) and carries about 5% of the world’s internet traffic. | Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet. | Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds. |
Caching- From whole sites to mobile, our acceleration and delivery services will bring you to the world's digital doorstep.;Application Delivery- Accelerate delivery of your web applications and non-static content.;Streaming- Flash, Silverlight, or HTTP – live or on-demand, we'll deliver it better than anyone.;Analytics- Total and immediate visibility into content performance and the user experience.;Storage- Origin is more than just CDN storage. Security, replication, and caching infrastructures mean massive scale at ultra-fast speeds.;Data Center- Expand your footprint by deploying hardware and applications within our optimized facilities.;Security- Our powerful security tools protect your content and applications from unauthorized use.;Rules Engine- This powerful new tool gives you highly granular control over how, when - and even if - your content is served.;Edge Optimizer- Powered by Google PageSpeed, Edge Optimizer keeps your application's data and logic off of your network. | CDN;WAF (Web Application Firewall);DDOS Protection; | static content delivery; event-driven content delivery; Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA); API caching; Instant Purge; Soft Purge; surrogate keys; streaming and VOD; Real-time Analytics; instant configuration; instant deploys; built on Varnish; Custom VCL upload; on-demand DDoS mitigation; Transport Layer Security; PCI compliance and compliance services; Origin Shield; real-time streaming logs; Historical Stats; Edge Dictionaries; Fastly’s Cloud Accelerator; Configuration Control Panel; stale-if-error; stale-while-revalidate; Edge Side Includes (ESI); GeoIP/geography detection; mobile device detection; edge authorization/paywalls; shopper prioritization |
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What are some alternatives to EdgeCast, CloudFlare, Fastly?
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.
KeyCDN
KeyCDN offers super fast and secure content delivery for minimal loading time. In addition to the CDN, it also offers advanced image processing and many other features such as live logs and Let's Encrypt SSL.
MaxCDN
The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.
jsDelivr
jsDelivr is a free CDN for open source developers, with advanced features for javascript projects with access to NPM and Github It uses multiple CDN providers, resulting in the best possible uptime and performance.
Moovweb XDN
All-in-one platform to develop, deploy, preview, experiment on, monitor, and run your frontend.
Limelight CDN
Whether it’s your website, mobile applications, videos, music, software, games, or APIs, your content needs to reach customers quickly, reliably, and securely. It provides the capacity, coverage, and performance to cost-effectively deliver a better experience for you and your customers.
cdnjs
Everyone loves the Google CDN? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host it all - JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc! Powered by CloudFlare.
Statically
A free, fast, & modern CDN for open source projects, WordPress, images, and any static assets.
Incapsula
Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.
Cloudflare CDN
A CDN is a distributed network of servers that provides several advantages for a web site: Cached content: By caching web site content, It helps improve page load speeds, reduce bandwidth usage, and reduce CPU usage on the server.
