Anyone know of a high traffic CDN?

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by true_religion • 14 years ago

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My startup site is seeing a huge spike in traffic, and currently does about 140Mbits a second and rising worth of traffic.

Are there any CDNs that can not only handle this, but do so at an affordable price? Akamai is too pricey so its out.

I know about:

NetDNA Choopa

davidandgoliath• 14 years ago

http://www.cachefly.com/ should suit the bill.

true_religion7• 14 years ago

Cachefly prices at $0.20/GB at Platinum which is 2 cents more than Akamai's baseline price.

To compare Netdna pricing starts at 0.06/GB so that level and below is what I consider affordable.

spahl3• 14 years ago

CloudFlare is a very nice service for that. As an example you can read that blog post: http://blog.cloudflare.com/moog-music-staying-online-when-go...

true_religion7• 14 years ago

Any idea what CloudFlare's pricing is for high traffic?

I don't think they'd let me stay on their stated $20/month plan.

Just checking the blog post, they only pushed 182GB total.

We run 1.75TB per day!

Edit: Checked it out, they go as low as 0.03/GB which might be feasible.

dsl• 14 years ago

CloudFlare you get what you pay for. You'll see a pretty high rate of origin pull, which is a metric most people don't look at when comparing CDNs. (i.e. out of every 1000 requests do they refetch from you 1 time or 600 times?)

It might even be disingenuous to call CloudFlare a CDN at all. They are really a web application firewall and app delivery service.

spahl3• 14 years ago

CloudFlare doesn't charge for bandwidth. Your bandwidth levels not an issue. Check out their network graph to see current stats: http://www.cloudflare.com/network-map

jpluscplusm• 14 years ago

We use Cotendo and CDNetworks. Both work, and your 140Mbps is /nothing/ to either. Can't share pricing, I'm afraid. Non-JIT contracts are probably your enemy here, though - there'll be minimum term lengths for most CDNs.

true_religion7• 14 years ago

Cotendo is Akamai. They were acquired.

bkerensa• 14 years ago

MaxCDN.com or CloudCache.com... MaxCDN powers site like Mashable and TechCrunch.

true_religion7• 14 years ago

MaxCDN is NetDNA. MaxCDN is their label for lower-traffic sites.

Edit:

Just checked, CloudCache is a NetDNA brand too. For anything higher than their max plan, they refer you back to the parent company.

murz• 14 years ago

Have you looked into S3/Cloudfront?

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing

true_religion7• 14 years ago

Cloudfront's pricing is complicated and a touch higher than I'd like.

They may or may not have a good network, but I think all CDNs pretty much have comparable networks

true_religion7• 14 years ago

My comparisions, in case anyone ends up in my predicament and searches up on this:

Highwinds

- Price under NDA

Akamai

- 0.18/cents public price. Private price under NDA.

Webzilla

- 0.5 cents/GB

Fastly

- 0.12/GB to 10TB

- 0.08/GB from 40TB

- 0.06/GB from 100TB

ValueCDN

- 0.05/GB from 5TB - 0.04/GB from 30TB Voxel.net

- $0.10/GB to 50TB - $0.07/GB to 500TB - $0.05/GB and up

AdvanceHosters

- Starts at 0.04/GB

Constant.com

- 0.05/GB through 0.03/GB depending on package

I'm going to test out ValueCDN, Voxel, Constant and Highwinds. May the best CDN win.

davyjones• 14 years ago

Don't know about the pricing but EdgeCast Networks (http://www.edgecast.com/) powers Imgur.

cosjef• 14 years ago

I'm a Solution Architect at Akamai, and we can definitely help you out. PM me if you want to chat.

macros• 14 years ago

We can handle this easily at fastly.com. You can also reach us in #fastly on irc.freenode.net if you have any questions.

Anyone know of a high traffic CDN?

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