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I am curious, if anyone knows how well does Akamai work in the CDN world?

• stonewhite 9y ago
  Terrible to work with and not all that performant as well. Also they caused us a 24+ downtime by a forced configuration change from their side, which undid some configurations their professional services implemented (yeah, some parts of the UI is only modifiable by PS). Luckily we had Cloudfront integration as backup, so switched over to that until finally Akamai team decided fix our problem.
• anonacct37 9y ago
  Don't use them unless you have to. The vendor lock-in is strong.
• scurvy 9y ago
  They're good but only at $100k per month and above. You really need to use their full suite of products to get the full benefit, and by that time you'll be at $100k per month. They are OK not great for smaller accounts.
  • photonios 9y ago
    At work we use Akamai to serve a large website and we pay about a 10th of that and it definitely benefits us. But that's only because they simply have a large network and are one of the few CDN's that have POP's close to our customers. Other than that, it's just overkill for small businesses.