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I love the flexibility and speed that CDNs provide however I hate the fact that if you are outside the US CDNs get very flaky very quickly. Most of the large pr

I love the flexibility and speed that CDNs provide however I hate the fact that if you are outside the US CDNs get very flaky very quickly. Most of the large providers don't have a Point of Presence (POP) in Africa and large parts of Europe, Russia and Asia are not covered (i.e don't have a close POP). CloudFlare and Akamai are the only companies that have POPs in Africa, it's unfortunate that small players can't use really use Akamai. Aside from the location problems, the lack and / or pricing of HTTPS / TLS really sucks.

curun1r 11y ago
> it's unfortunate that small players can't use really use Akamai Small players can't use Akamai directly, but there are providers (Netflify and probably some others) that use Akamai that are more accessible to the downmarket crowd.
- acdha 11y ago
  The most prominent example being Rackspace, which claims to offer the full Akamai network with simpler pricing & APIs: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cdn-content-delivery-network/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cdn-content-delivery-network/
  - jread 11y ago
    Not the full Akamai network - only 219 edge locations out of many thousands on Akamai's full network: http://go.rackspace.com/cdn.html?cm_mmc=PPC_NonBrand-_-US_Cloud_NB-_-Exact-_-avirex%20host http://go.rackspace.com/cdn.html?cm_mmc=PPC_NonBrand-_-US_Cl...