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CDNify vs Fastly: What are the differences?

CDNify: Content Delivery Network for tech startups, digital agencies & developers. We help you accelerate your content and supercharge your apps and website; Fastly: We're redefining content delivery. 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.

CDNify and Fastly can be primarily classified as "Content Delivery Network" tools.

Some of the features offered by CDNify are:

Restful API
Custom SSL as standard
Flat rate global coverage

On the other hand, Fastly provides the following key features:

static content delivery
event-driven content delivery
Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA)

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What is CDNify?

We help you accelerate your content and supercharge your apps and website.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to CDNify and Fastly?

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.

Akamai

If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology, so you can focus on driving your business faster forward.

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.

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.

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Decisions about CDNify and Fastly

Justin Dorfman

Developer Evangelist at StackShare · a few seconds ago | 4 upvotes · 36.8K views

MaxCDN

GitHub Pages

Netlify

Let's Encrypt

Jekyll

Bootstrap

jQuery

Grunt

Fastly

#CDN

#GoogleFonts

#StaticSiteGenerators

#Webperf

When my SSL cert MaxCDN was expiring on my personal site I decided it was a good time to revamp some things. Since GitHub Services is depreciated I can no longer have #CDN cache purges automated among other things. So I decided on the following: GitHub Pages, Netlify, Let's Encrypt and Jekyll. Staying the same was Bootstrap, jQuery, Grunt & #GoogleFonts.

What's awesome about GitHub Pages is that it has a #CDN (Fastly) built-in and anytime you push to master, it purges the cache instantaneously without you have to do anything special. Netlify is magic, I highly recommend it to anyone using #StaticSiteGenerators.

For the most part, everything went smoothly. The only things I had issues with were the following:

If you want to point www to GitHub Pages you need to rename the repo to www
If you edit something in the _config.yml you need to restart bundle exec jekyll s or changes won't show
I had to disable the Grunt htmlmin module. I replaced it with Jekyll layout that compresses HTML for #webperf

Last but certainly not least, I made a donation to Let's Encrypt. If you use their service consider doing it too: https://letsencrypt.org/donate/

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Fastly

In addition to having a great service, a powerful API and a perfect uptime the one thing that's really awesome about Fastly is their support. They respond really fast, are very knowledgeable, and do everything they can to help you with your problem (and that includes 1-to-1 chat on irc, skype/hangout call, etc.). Such a great experience.