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Fastly vs KeyCDN: What are the differences?

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; KeyCDN: A CDN crafted with ease and simplicity in mind - speed up your website. KeyCDN is a superfast Content Delivery Network with best prices on the market. This CDN allows you to accelerate any kind of content.

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

Some of the features offered by Fastly are:

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

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

  • HTTP/2 support
  • Free automated Let's Encrypt SSL
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing

"Real-time updates" is the top reason why over 20 developers like Fastly, while over 39 developers mention "Pay-as-you-go" as the leading cause for choosing KeyCDN.

Twitter, reddit, and Slack are some of the popular companies that use Fastly, whereas KeyCDN is used by Rocket.Chat, Uploadcare, and Flat. Fastly has a broader approval, being mentioned in 96 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to KeyCDN, which is listed in 34 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.

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Pros of Fastly
Pros of KeyCDN
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    Real-time updates
  • 26
    Fastest CDN
  • 22
    Powerful API
  • 20
    Great support
  • 14
    Great customer support
  • 7
    Instant Purging
  • 7
    Custom VCL
  • 6
    Good pricing
  • 6
    Tag-based Purging
  • 5
    HTTP/2 Support
  • 4
    Speed & functionality
  • 4
    Image processing on demande (Fastly IO)
  • 4
    Best CDN
  • 40
    Pay-as-you-go
  • 38
    Cheapest cdn pricing ever
  • 27
    Easy setup
  • 27
    No subscription
  • 23
    Free shared ssl
  • 21
    Fastest cdn i've ever used
  • 17
    Cheap
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    Ssd-optimized edge servers
  • 15
    Great support
  • 14
    Quick support
  • 7
    Free Custom SSL
  • 5
    Supports HTTP/2 and available globally
  • 4
    No time limit for spending credit
  • 3
    Build for developers
  • 3
    Support Let's Encrypt
  • 2
    Supports SPDY
  • 2
    Server from Turkey
  • 2
    5 zones included
  • 2
    Easy as pie to setup
  • 2
    Brotli Support
  • 2
    No credit card required for free trial
  • 2
    Real-time Log Forwarding
  • 1
    Fastest CDN
  • 1
    Easy to setup & improve website loading speed
  • 1
    Haven't had much time to tinker, but YES
  • 1
    Its very reliable and easy to use
  • 1
    Great customer support, easy setup
  • 0
    A very capable CDN with an affordable price tag

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Cons of Fastly
Cons of KeyCDN
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    Minimum $50/mo spend
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    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.

    What is 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.

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    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.
    Netlify
    Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.
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