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If you contact a Tier 1 CDN directly without a decent commit, you will not even be entertained, but you can always find resellers. Akamai pay as you go pricing
by maverhick 16y ago
If you contact a Tier 1 CDN directly without a decent commit, you will not even be entertained, but you can always find resellers. Akamai pay as you go pricing was just around 150$/TB pricing with resellers and we have used them for a long time. We gave up on CF after speed issues in Asia. Akamai is the strongest across the globe
- jread 16y agoWhat reseller are you using? We were using VPS.net, but they informed us last week that Akamai had terminated their reselling contract and they were migrating users to Level3.
- maverhick 16y agoSame here, right now we are using google app engine as a CDN. Not sure I want to use Level3.
- jbyers 16y agoAkamai pay as you go pricing was just around 150$/TB pricing with resellers Who resells at this rate other than VPS.net? There's a reason Akamai terminated their contract. I haven't found another legitimate reseller that's anywhere close, and Akamai direct is 3x that rate for say a small TB/month commit. Level3 does not appear to have an Asian CDN presence. [Edit: I'm wrong. They do have CDN nodes in Asia, but man it's hard to find a map.] EdgeCast is an excellent alternative. ThePlanet resells them at under $0.20 per GB but I've been having trouble getting them to take our business now that the SoftLayer merger has closed. Many other resellers are out there ar less competitive rates, e.g. GoGrid and SpeedyRails.
- maverhick 16y agoOne area CDNs seem to miss out on is India. Most of the ones I've seen including Level3 have their pops in SG/HK. Only Bitgravity and Akamai have India pops Thanks for the lead on theplanet. The edgecast pricing is not bad :)