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Nope. Akamai DSA for us was 50% the cost of CloudFlare Enterprise. You just need to be good at negotiating.
by foobarbazetc 9y ago
Nope. Akamai DSA for us was 50% the cost of CloudFlare Enterprise.
You just need to be good at negotiating.
- manigandham 9y agoDoesn't every major CDN do DSA-like stuff now? What does it offer you that Cloudflare's basic plans don't?
- foobarbazetc 9y agoNothing. We now use CloudFlare on the $200/month plan. :) My point is more CloudFlare Enterprise vs Akamai. The prices quoted to us for Enterprise were ridiculous. Sometimes when a vendor starts off with prices not even in the ballpark of Akamai there's no point even engaging. For what it's worth, while CF is reasonable for DSA (haven't enabled Argo yet, so...) their performance is erratic. Akamai/EdgeCast are more predictable because the Argo-like component is built in. Not to mention CF cached content serving speeds aren't great. And they don't cache large files on non-Enterprise. I think something like CF $200 plan plus Argo plus their load balancing product is very powerful and hard to beat. But you still need something to run your downloads from (you can get EdgeCast on a non commit month to month from Speedyrails for that or whatever -- CloudFront also a shitty option.) Also, I hate dealing with sales people in general and I find CF sales people more irritating than usual. Akamai sales also suck. The nicest sales people I've ever dealt with were EdgeCast pre Verizon acquisition. Also Cotendo before Akamai.