Amazon CloudFront vs. MaxCDN vs. EdgeCast
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What is 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.
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What is 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.
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What is EdgeCast?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.
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How much does Amazon CloudFront cost?
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Companies |
What companies use Amazon CloudFront?
3705 companies on StackShare use Amazon CloudFront
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What companies use MaxCDN?
1024 companies on StackShare use MaxCDN
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What companies use EdgeCast?
34 companies on StackShare use EdgeCast
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Integrations |
What tools integrate with Amazon CloudFront?
17 tools on StackShare integrate with Amazon CloudFront
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What tools integrate with MaxCDN?
4 tools on StackShare integrate with MaxCDN
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What are some alternatives to Amazon CloudFront, MaxCDN, and EdgeCast?
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Latest News |
Lambda@Edge – Intelligent Processing of HTTP Request...
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Reviews of Amazon CloudFront, MaxCDN, and EdgeCast
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blueprintmrkThe best CDN or ADN you can get
May 16, 2014 15:11
I have been using edge cast for approximately 5 years. Their support is nothing short of fantastic.
Their pricing is beyond fair and when you consider them some of the competitors if you are big enough you can negotiate if you are a smaller company Google resellers you will find deals everywhere.
They are the fastest CDN available I have used all the big names and it has all come down to EdgeCast they can do everything I want including allowing me to fix coding issues on clients websites automatically with their ADN application delivery network. By applying Google page speed through the ADN which is a CDN that has Google page speed, accelerates both dynamic and static content along with incredible analytics uptime management and their new DNS with geo-IP makes them a fantastic company to work with.
To everyone that EdgeCast thank you so much for all your help.
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orrdRidiculously high added fees for everything.
September 09, 2015 12:23
Their website only shows the prices for some aspects of the service, mainly just the bandwidth. But where they really get you is by charging high fees for everything else. Their basic rate only includes North America and Europe. You have to pay extra for other locations. Then hosting a subdomain costs $100 extra/month (no idea why, other CDNs do it for free), additional zones cost extra (normally free with other CDNs), no caching rules unless you pay extra, hidden fees for push data storage, etc etc.
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lachlanjcGreat CDN
April 06, 2014 06:20
I love CloudFront. All my assets are hosted by them, and they cut page load time in half, and my average bill is around $0.15/month. They're good, fast, and cheap — pick three!
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How developers use Amazon CloudFront vs MaxCDN vs EdgeCast
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StackShare uses Amazon CloudFront
We chose CloudFront mostly because it’s incredibly popular. But also because it’s the recommended CDN for Heroku, which means there shouldn’t be any problems using them together. Rails makes it really easy to drop in a CDN reference for your app so that when your assets get compiled, they’re shipped off to the CDN and then deployed with your app.
So anytime we push to Heroku, we’re pushing up to CloudFront (if the assets don’t already exist). One major issue we still haven’t been able to solve involves Fonts. Has anyone actually been able to get fonts served up through CloudFront using Rails 4 and Heroku? Literally spent hours researching this and can’t find any solutions. We ended up just referencing a CDN for all the font libraries.
We have a separate distribution for each environment, since I don’t think it’s possible to use the same distribution for the multiple domains.
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v0lkan uses Amazon CloudFront
I use CloudFront to front the static website at zerotoherojs.com that I host in an s3 bucket.
This way, I don’t have to worry about scalability or performance, as I’ll know that the content will be delivered to the users as fast as possible from the closest edge location.
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Pathwright uses Amazon CloudFront
Parked in front of an nginx instance that serves all of our static assets. Performance and reliability have been excellent, and the header pass-through rules are wonderful. Price is affordable, as well.
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Kalibrr uses Amazon CloudFront
CloudFront's easy to use in front of S3, especially for videos, which don't load reliably from S3. We've noticed latency issues with CloudFront, and so don't use it for everything, though.
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jflynn33 uses Amazon CloudFront
In my opinion, the best Content Delivery Network for the money. This, along with other services from AWS's ecosystem make this the easy choice for CDN. Fast, simple and cheap.
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Olo uses MaxCDN
Primary CDN using an S3 origin. Fails over automatically to Cloudfront if unavailable.
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Elite Strategies uses MaxCDN
We added MaxCDN in hopes we could offer a faster loading website to our blog readers.
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