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EdgeCast vs jsDelivr: What are the differences?
Developers describe EdgeCast as "The world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network". 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. On the other hand, jsDelivr is detailed as "A free Open Source CDN for webmasters and developers". Unlike the competition, jsDelivr uses multiple CDN providers, resulting in the best possible uptime and performance. We currently use MaxCDN, CloudFlare, and KeyCDN.
EdgeCast and jsDelivr belong to "Content Delivery Network" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by EdgeCast are:
- Caching- From whole sites to mobile, our acceleration and delivery services will bring you to the world's digital doorstep.
- Application Delivery- Accelerate delivery of your web applications and non-static content.
- Streaming- Flash, Silverlight, or HTTP – live or on-demand, we'll deliver it better than anyone.
On the other hand, jsDelivr provides the following key features:
- Open Source
- Multi-CDN
- Smart Load Balancing
jsDelivr is an open source tool with 2.69K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to jsDelivr's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of EdgeCast
Pros of jsDelivr
- Its fast9
- Diverse POPs and support8
- Free8
- Many packages available7
- Load multiple files with single HTTP request6
- Auto-minification by changing url extension to .min.js3
- View pkg download statistics per week/month/year3
- Can add OSS packages I use3
- Worked in China2
- Easy setup, great cdn1
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