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KeyCDN vs MaxCDN: What are the differences?
KeyCDN: A CDN crafted with ease and simplicity in mind - speed up your website. KeyCDN is a superfast Content Delivery Network with best prices on the market. This CDN allows you to accelerate any kind of content; MaxCDN: Our CDN makes your site load faster!. 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.
KeyCDN and MaxCDN can be primarily classified as "Content Delivery Network" tools.
Some of the features offered by KeyCDN are:
- HTTP/2 support
- Free automated Let's Encrypt SSL
- Pay-as-you-go pricing
On the other hand, MaxCDN provides the following key features:
- We Make You Fast- With our fast-growing network of multiple PoP locations in all parts of the globe, we mirror your content and deliver it to the neared location to your visitors. It isn't just our network that is fast, but with our state-of-art hardware, fast RAM and SSD storage, content is served at lightning fast speeds.
- We Have Your Back- To ensure that you do not have any downtime, we have deployed redundant networks and intelligent routing that ensures selecting an alternative route if a network pathway is down.
- We Help You Rank- Using MaxCDN will help you improve your website speed, and since this is now a ranking factor used by Google and other search engines for deciding search results, deploying MaxCDN will help you rank better, giving you more traffic.
"Pay-as-you-go" is the primary reason why developers consider KeyCDN over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking MaxCDN.
According to the StackShare community, MaxCDN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 887 company stacks & 109 developers stacks; compared to KeyCDN, which is listed in 34 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
Pros of KeyCDN
- Pay-as-you-go40
- Cheapest cdn pricing ever38
- Easy setup27
- No subscription27
- Free shared ssl23
- Fastest cdn i've ever used21
- Cheap17
- Ssd-optimized edge servers16
- Great support15
- Quick support14
- Free Custom SSL7
- Supports HTTP/2 and available globally5
- No time limit for spending credit4
- Build for developers3
- Support Let's Encrypt3
- Supports SPDY2
- Server from Turkey2
- 5 zones included2
- Easy as pie to setup2
- Brotli Support2
- No credit card required for free trial2
- Real-time Log Forwarding2
- Fastest CDN1
- Easy to setup & improve website loading speed1
- Haven't had much time to tinker, but YES1
- Its very reliable and easy to use1
- Great customer support, easy setup1
- A very capable CDN with an affordable price tag0
Pros of MaxCDN
- Easy setup47
- Speed to my clients33
- Great service & Customer Support15
- Shared and Affordable SSL5