List of best CDN provider worldwide

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a crucial part of any internet business strategy. A CDN is a globally distributed network of web servers to provide faster delivery and highly available contents. The content is replicated throughout the CDN, so, it exists in many places all at once. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, in order to avoid bottlenecks near that server. It improves user experience and provides a more efficient network resource utilization.

There are more and more CDN providers in the market, but here is a quick list of the top of them.

So, let's explore it -

Akamai

AkamaiAkamai is known globally to speed up networks and connections. They have a strong infrastructure to speed up sites and make things better for online users. Of course, this company works with big brands and large businesses in general. It’s not commonly used by bloggers, but by customers with huge page traffic and very well established brands.

AWS

Amazon_AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of cloud computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 12 geographical regions across the world. They offer a large scale of cloud services, such as DDoS protection, CDN, storage, analytics, and online database services. They offer to compete at minimal prices.

Cloudflare

CloudflareCloudflare is one of the fastest growing Saas providers in the security and performance space encompassing DNS, CDN, WAF and DDOS mitigation. Cloudflare operates the most efficient DNS service in the world and provides performance, security, and access inside China’s network to +6 million websites, applications, and APIs. Cloudflare has offices in San Francisco, London, and Singapore, and is backed by US$180M in funding, most of it from Google, Baidu, Microsoft, and Qualcomm. Cloudflare offers Self-Service or Enterprise plans to suit small, medium and very large customers.

Google Cloud CDN

Google has a fast CDN service that makes sites loading blazing fast with rewriting rules, and many advanced settings and configurations. Google servers host your site content after copying and optimizing it from your original server. Then, the Google configurations and speed technology will compress your images, and even, optimize the CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other resources. When a visitor sees your site, they get the cached version directly from Google high-speed servers. The powerful infrastructure of Google optimizes the full website for speed.

Imperva Incapsula

Incapsula is one of the best CDN services. If anyone is looking for a cheap, fast, and a secure CDN, this one will be a perfect choice. It's a beautiful combination of security and speed. It is not really easy to find such advanced security protection like they are offering. And at the same time, its advanced CDN acceleration system makes any website to load blazing fast.

CDN77

CDN77 is a very fast and flexible provider with HTTP/2. It's a dynamic content delivery network that meets all the standards of a quality CDN whether it’s price, features, global presence, storage offerings, or content delivery speed. It offers low-cost, no commitments, setup fees or request payments content delivery network provider with more than 28 points of presence (POPs) around the world. It's basically known as an innovative frontrunner for deploying the newest feature ASAP like HTTP/2,  brittle compression or TLS1.3.

Fastly

A highly configurable heavyweight of the CDN world. It provides CDN tricks for some really big organizations, including the likes of Spotify and Reddit, and the firm lives up to its name, delivering impressively fast performance levels. Going by the rough guideline of CDNPerf’s rankings, it’s the second-fastest CDN for the UK, and worldwide speeds are mostly good, too.

MaxCDN

MaxCDN is one of the popular Content Delivery Networks in the world as their servers are strategically placed across 90 countries. The SSD loaded servers are optimized to provide excellent image acceleration and page loading speed that improves the overall performance of a website. It's compatible with all the popular content management systems like Magento, WordPress, Drupal, etc, while the ‘REST API’ allows integrations with users, zones, and other resources into your applications.

Microsoft Azure CDN

Microsoft Azure is a big old stack of integrated cloud tools for building and managing applications and services, with a wide range of coverage including a CDN offering. Performance levels are impressive, and at the time of writing, according to CDNPerf, Azure CDN is the fifth fastest content delivery network in the US and worldwide. Its servers host the site contents after copying and optimizing it from site’s original server. Then, its caching system and the server configurations will compress the images, and even will optimize HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other such resources.

Alibaba CDN

Alibaba Cloud develops highly scalable cloud computing and data management services. As the cloud computing arm and a business unit of Alibaba Group, It provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both our international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem. Its services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection, and content delivery networks (CDN).

CacheFly CDN

CacheFly CDN delivers the static objects on your website (audio, video, files, CSS) up to 10 times faster, with over 30 points of presence strategically spread worldwide near the Internet's major peering points. These locations enable content providers to place their content closer to their audience or end users, resulting in faster, more efficient and reliable delivery of rich media content. The on-demand bandwidth prevents performance degradation or timeouts during traffic spikes. The robust platform provides full access to your files, with a simple interface for modifying files without using complicated API's.

KeyCDN

KeyCDN is a high-performance Content Delivery Network (CDN). KeyCDN is a global CDN with its own infrastructure and POPs in the US, Europe, Asia, South-America, and Australia. They offer a pay-as-you-go pricing model with a competitive global flat-rate. They use 100% SSD-optimized servers for low latency, and all of their points-of-presence are located in premium SSAE 16-compliant data centers such as Coresite, Digital Realty, Equinix and Softlayer. Other KeyCDN features include the intuitive dashboard; HTTP/2 for faster delivery; GZip compression for faster data accessibility; real-time reporting; extensive security (with DDoS protection, shared or custom SSL, secure token, etc); origin shield and much more.

These are not all the greatest CDN services that you need to know, but they are the best ones for the security, speed, and performance. It’s not easy to limit the list to 10 only, but, you can find your best choice when you limit the number of selections.

 

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