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CloudFlare
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Very affordable
CloudFlare offers a free plan with basic DDoS protection and promises to always provide a free service with at least the feature set that it has today. More advanced DDoS protection is available for the higher plans, which can be added as your needs grow.
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Slow support
Even on paid (Pro) account, support often takes several hours per reply. So a single query can take days to resolve.
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Works with static and dynamic content
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Practices Man-in-the-Middle certificate forgery
Https ("secure") comunications with sites using CloudFlare are intercepted at their servers, decrypted and recrypted with CloudFlare's certificates. This poses huge problem with what users perceive as safe communication - browsers fail to display notice about MitM taking place.
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Automatic IPv6
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Lowers usability of the web for Tor users
Tor users are required to enter captcha at each site using CloudFlare. In some circumstances, this introduces unsolvable roadblock.
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SSL encryption
As of late 2014 Cloudflare offers SSL encryption for all sites using its service.
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Relies on intrusive captcha screens to validate visitors
During large attacks, Cloudflare will block users with captcha screens to filter out malicious attacks. Albeit effective, they cause a considerable annoyance to legitimate users.
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Handled some of the largest DDoS attacks in history
Cloudflare was able to deflect 2 massive DDoS attacks. During the March 2013 attack on Spamhaus, they were able to absorb a peak 120Gbps attack that lasted 4 days, as well as a 400Gbps attack in February 2014. Their track record shows their ability to protect against DDoS attacks in practice.
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Support doesn't have access to logs
Log access is an enterprise feature and priced at the "contact us" level. So when an error code is returned to the user that wasn't returned from your app, debugging this is impossible at the pro level. Unfortunately these logs aren't available to support personnel either so they have no way of tracking/validating issues.
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Easy management interface
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Lack of cache control
If you want to cache all kinds of content (e.g. HTML, JSON), you need the "Cache Everything" setting, and this imposes a long "max-age" directive of 2 hours. It ignores your origin server's value.
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Highly secure
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Layer 7 attacks must be manually identified
In order to enable layer 7 protection with Cloudflare, customers must manually press an "I'm under attack" button.
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Anyone can add or update libraries
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Has npm auto-update
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Site enhancing apps
Cloudflare has a wide selection of app support that allows the user to install the app easily through Cloudflare instead of in their site. This creates ease of use, time saved and less degradation of performance.
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Works with other CDNs
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Page Rules are powerful
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Railgun optimization for Business & Enterprise plans
Railgun allows caching dynamic and personalized sites, allowing for up to 140% performance increase.
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Official WordPress plugin
Cloudflare offers an official WordPress plugin that allows for customization through the user panel.
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Has tag based cache spoilage for Enterprise plan
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Free service is Best
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Akamai
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Large scale point of presence
Being one of the worlds largest CDNs, Akamai's large scale gives it a huge point of presence (PoP) to handle volumetric attacks.
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Expensive
Akami's services cost more than triple comparative packages from other security companies. At 13k a month for DDoS protection, there are many other choices out there that cost less for the same protection.
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Deeply customizable rules
The Kona Site Defender rules are all customizable, with continuous updates from Akamai. This means you can see how they are protecting your site under the hood, and adjust them to your needs.
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Slower security rule propagation
Because of Akamai's large CDN structure, it can take some time for security rules to propagate, making it harder to adjust security responses on the fly.
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Lots of dedicated bandwidth specifically for DDoS absorption
Through Prolexic's PLXedge, Akamai provides their customers with a total of 2.3 Tbps of dedicated DDoS absorption bandwidth.
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Rules for rate limiting
Akamai provides tools for rate controlling traffic segments based on their request rate behavior.
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Capped bursting fees
If a sudden attack sucks up a lot of bandwidth, the bandwidth costs are capped.
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Application layer protection
Akamai utilizes a proprietary web application firewall in order to provide scalable protection against application layer attacks.
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CloudFront
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Any type of content
CloudFront can deliver dynamic, static and streaming content.
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Can get expensive quickly
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Dynamic scaling
CloudFront will allocate more hardware resources when needed automatically. It will take care of traffic spikes and accommodate product's growth without needing manual input from the user.
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Simple interface
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Tight integration with other Amazon Web Services
CloudFront integrates tightly with Amazon's storage, computing, database and networking services allowing you to use a tested and cohesively developed set of solutions.
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CDN77.com
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Cost-effective monthly plans
You can choose between Pay-As-You-Go and Worldwide Monthly Plans - with a fixed price for all locations, starting at $19/TB.
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Doesn't allow for much user-customization
CDN77 lacks any advanced configuration options, making it a poor choice for any users wanting to do anything out-of-the-norm.
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Strong and responsive support team
Support helped with a migration from another provider and made the process seamless.
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Very easy to use
CDN77 is organized into a few tabs (dashboard, CDN, reports, support), which can quickly be accessed through buttons top dead center of the page. Setting it up is very easy as well, with just a few basic steps - create your storage, show CDN77 where your files are, then start using it.
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Only pay for the data you use
Pricing starts at 49¢/GB, and will drop down to 29¢/GB if you receive lots of traffic. See Pay As You Go plan details here. If you have lots of traffic, instead you can opt for monthly plans which offer up to 2PB for just under $15,000/month. Check out High Volume plans here.
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Great user interface
Much clearer and easier to use than e.g. AWS.
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Video Processing and Delivery solution
CDN77 also offers a standalone Video Processing and Delivery solution called Streamflow. Video delivery competitors usually use a 3rd party CDN for global video delivery, while CDN77 has built it upon their own datacenter network. This is more reliable and allows for a flexible pricing.
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Extensive global network coverage
Good global network coverage in both North America and Europe.
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MaxCDN
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Powerful tools
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100% uptime
MaxCDN promises an uptime of 100%.
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Popular blogging, ecommerce and plugin solutions
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HTTP and RTMP support
HTTP and RTMP variant audio and video streaming.
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NetDNA uses the Packet Exchange backbone
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Real-time live streaming support
Real-time live streaming support using Wowza Media Server Advanced 2 clusters.
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Microsoft Azure
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Supports running Windows Server
Most, if not all, of the major cloud PaaS providers offer a Linux variant to host your applications. Windows Azure, being a Microsoft product obviously, supports Windows in addition to Linux.
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Expensive
Even though in the context of Pay-as-you-go services, it's cost effective, but monthly pricing for these services are quite higher than competitors.
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Linux Instances
The Azure platform has been supporting Linux VMs for a while now and has Linux distributions readily available in the catalogue.
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Free Tier
Microsoft Azure offers a Free Tier option that allows you to spawn a BST-1 instance that has 750 free hours.
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KeyCDN
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Transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing
Traffic prices are as low as $0.04/GB and volume pricing starts at 10TB/month.
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Unreasonable anti-spam policy
Not suitable if you have an association with online advertising. A single email that may include your domain that appears on Spamcop will result in a threat to terminate your account and a requirement to disable the URL -- even if you are not responsible for the production or sending of the email.
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Simple and easy setup
CDN configuration is instantly deployed.
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Config changes take 5-10 minutes
Any config change is queued for several minutes before being applied, without any time estimate. Combined with caching and DNS delays, it can make debugging a bit more difficult.
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Free Lets Encrypt SSL certificates for custom zone names
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HTTP/2 Support
One of the 1st providers to support HTTP/2
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Custom SSL for free
Allows uploading own certificate at no extra cost. Shared SSL is also available.
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Brotli support
KeyCDN supports Brotli compression for users who have Brotli enabled on their origin server.
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POPs in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan at no extra cost
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Real-time raw logs available for free
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Support SPDY 3.1
KeyCDN supports SPDY 3.1 for even faster secured connections.
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StackPath
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Flat pricing
Easy to understand the pricing of their CDNs.
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Not many services yet
Not really a con, just really good secure content delivery right now, but hopefully they will add more services soon.
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Free WAF and DDoS
Hard to beat the value for some security and CDN.
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Verisign
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Thorough and customized set up process
Verisign uses a very thorough set up process that can take weeks. This allows them to customize the payees service to their site/s in order to provide the best protection possible.
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No 24/7 live chat
Verisign does not offer 24/7 live chat for customer service, only 24/7 telephone and e-mail support.
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Signature analysis, dynamic profiling and filtering of the OSI stack are used to detect DDoS attacks
Verisign uses a multitude of tools simultaneously to detect security breaches and DDoS attacks. By using signature analysis and dynamic profiling along with filtering of the OSI stack (in order to detect DDoS attacks that are not coming from the network layer) Verisign can easily detect attacks to then alert the user as well as start mitigating the attack.
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Modshield SB WAF
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High Performance
Despite its robust protection, the WAF doesn’t compromise on application performance.
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Technical Complexity
Some users might find the learning curve challenging due to the product's technicalities.
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Real-Time Threat Detection
The product operates in real-time, countering threats as they occur to ensure uninterrupted operation.
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Comprehensive Protection
Modshield SB WAF defends against SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and many more threats, ensuring broad-spectrum security.
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