Google Cloud CDN vs Limelight CDN

Overview

Google Cloud CDN

Stacks86

Followers234

Votes3

Limelight CDN

Stacks15

Followers12

Votes18

Google Cloud CDN vs Limelight CDN: What are the differences?

Google Cloud CDN: Low-latency, low-cost content delivery using Google's global network. Google Cloud CDN leverages Google's globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites and applications served out of Google Compute Engine. Cloud CDN lowers network latency, offloads origins, and reduces serving costs. Once you've set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing, simply enable Cloud CDN with a single checkbox; Limelight CDN: 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.

Google Cloud CDN and Limelight CDN can be categorized as "Content Delivery Network" tools.

Some of the features offered by Google Cloud CDN are:

Anycast
Invalidation
HTTP/2

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

Google Cloud CDN	Limelight CDN
Google Cloud CDN leverages Google's globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites and applications served out of Google Compute Engine. Cloud CDN lowers network latency, offloads origins, and reduces serving costs. Once you've set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing, simply enable Cloud CDN with a single checkbox.	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.
Anycast;Invalidation;HTTP/2;HTTPS; Logging; Origins	Management & Reporting;Intelligent High-Speed Purging;Web Acceleration
Statistics
Stacks 86	Stacks 15
Followers 234	Followers 12
Votes 3	Votes 18
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Extremely Fast Cons 2 Very expensive not for newbies	Pros 2 Live Video 1 Free Trial of Services 1 Instant Purging 1 Global Network 1 98% cache hit ratio
Integrations
Stackdriver Google App Engine Google Compute Engine	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Google Cloud 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

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Statically

A free, fast, & modern CDN for open source projects, WordPress, images, and any static assets.

Incapsula

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