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  5. Fastly vs Uploadcare

Fastly vs Uploadcare

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Overview

Fastly
Fastly
Stacks1.1K
Followers507
Votes153
Uploadcare
Uploadcare
Stacks85
Followers122
Votes27

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Detailed Comparison

Fastly
Fastly
Uploadcare
Uploadcare

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.

Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.

static content delivery; event-driven content delivery; Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA); API caching; Instant Purge; Soft Purge; surrogate keys; streaming and VOD; Real-time Analytics; instant configuration; instant deploys; built on Varnish; Custom VCL upload; on-demand DDoS mitigation; Transport Layer Security; PCI compliance and compliance services; Origin Shield; real-time streaming logs; Historical Stats; Edge Dictionaries; Fastly’s Cloud Accelerator; Configuration Control Panel; stale-if-error; stale-while-revalidate; Edge Side Includes (ESI); GeoIP/geography detection; mobile device detection; edge authorization/paywalls; shopper prioritization
Stores files in Uploadcare Storage or connects to your AWS S3 buckets; Delivers content in an instant across 5 continents with Uploadcare CDN; Takes minutes to integrate thanks to series of guides for most popular Web platforms, programming languages, and frameworks; Well-documented and provides live chat or email support; Provides on-the-fly image processing and tools for editing images in desktop and mobile browsers; Lets you resize, crop, rotate, enhance, extract colors, detect faces, and whatnot; Provides REST API to manage your cloud storage; Lets you upload files from multiple sources using File Uploader, raw API, libraries or plugins; Provides HIPAA-compliance and PHI protection;
Statistics
Stacks
1.1K
Stacks
85
Followers
507
Followers
122
Votes
153
Votes
27
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 28
    Real-time updates
  • 26
    Fastest CDN
  • 22
    Powerful API
  • 20
    Great support
  • 14
    Great customer support
Cons
  • 1
    Minimum $50/mo spend
Pros
  • 10
    Great team
  • 6
    Simple image upload with widget
  • 5
    Awesome support
  • 5
    Easy to integrate into any website
  • 1
    <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
Cons
  • 1
    Upload widget is large (114KB)
  • 0
    no cons
Integrations
Heroku
Heroku
WordPress
WordPress
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Magento
Magento
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Zencoder
Zencoder
Rackspace Cloud Files
Rackspace Cloud Files
OpenStack
OpenStack
Datadog
Datadog
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
React
React
Stripe
Stripe
Google Drive
Google Drive
Squarespace
Squarespace
Django
Django
WordPress
WordPress
Shopify
Shopify
Zapier
Zapier
Rails
Rails
Ruby
Ruby

What are some alternatives to Fastly, Uploadcare?

CloudFlare

CloudFlare

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

Amazon CloudFront

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

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.

MaxCDN

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

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.

Transloadit

Transloadit

Transloadit handles file uploading & file processing for your websites and mobile apps. We can process video, audio, images and documents.

Moovweb XDN

Moovweb XDN

All-in-one platform to develop, deploy, preview, experiment on, monitor, and run your frontend.

Bytescale

Bytescale

Bytescale is the best way to serve images, videos, and audio for web apps. Includes: Fast CDN, Storage, and Media Processing APIs.

Limelight CDN

Limelight CDN

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.

cdnjs

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.

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