Azure CDN vs Limelight CDN

Overview

Azure CDN

Stacks60

Followers92

Votes2

Limelight CDN

Stacks15

Followers12

Votes18

Azure CDN vs Limelight CDN: What are the differences?

Developers describe Azure CDN as "A global CDN solution for delivering high-bandwidth content". It lets you reduce load times, save bandwidth, and speed responsiveness—whether you’re developing or managing websites or mobile apps, or encoding and distributing streaming media, gaming software, firmware updates, or IoT endpoints. On the other hand, Limelight CDN is detailed as "Fast, available and secure delivery of digital content to any device, anywhere". 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.

Azure CDN and Limelight CDN can be primarily classified as "Content Delivery Network" tools.

Some of the features offered by Azure CDN are:

Acceleration Data Transfer
Deep integration
Multiple providers

On the other hand, Limelight CDN provides the following key features:

Management & Reporting
Intelligent High-Speed Purging
Web Acceleration

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Detailed Comparison

Azure CDN	Limelight CDN
It lets you reduce load times, save bandwidth, and speed responsiveness—whether you’re developing or managing websites or mobile apps, or encoding and distributing streaming media, gaming software, firmware updates, or IoT endpoints.	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.
Acceleration Data Transfer ; Deep integration; Multiple providers; Advanced analytics	Management & Reporting;Intelligent High-Speed Purging;Web Acceleration
Statistics
Stacks 60	Stacks 15
Followers 92	Followers 12
Votes 2	Votes 18
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Low Latency	Pros 2 Live Video 1 Sub second latency streaming 1 Free Trial of Services 1 Instant Purging 1 Global Network
Integrations
WordPress Drupal	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Azure CDN, Limelight CDN?

CloudFlare

Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.

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.

Fastly

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.

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.

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.