Content Delivery Networks - CDN Prices
| Content Delivery Network or CDN boosts the performance of websites by keeping copies of your data at different geographic locations. So when a client accesses your website, the files will be delivered from a nearest location. Cloud Hosting Guru has picked some cheap CDNs for SMEs and enterprises alike. Check the CDN prices and choose wisely. Remember, any CDN is probably better than no CDN. |
| Rank | CDN Provider | Host Rating |
| 1 | MediaTemple ProCDN is actually EdgeCast CDN resold by MT. Pricing is $20 for 200GB monthly transfer. $0.15 additional per GB data transferred. Good choice for starting up. Impressive POP list already! |  |
| 2 | Amazon CloudFront $0.150 per GB. A decent offering from Amazon. But supports origin pull ONLY from Amazon S3 which you have to pay extra. |  |
| 3 | High Winds CDN $0.075 per GB. One of the cheapest you can get. No POP (point of presence) in Asia Pacific, yet. VPS.NET is reselling this. Original price is $0.50 | |
| 4 | Cachefly $0.39 per GB ($99 plan prorated). Expensive because it is a monthly plan. Said to be of high performance. Decent POP list. 30day trial available. There is a high volume plan and price can go as low as $0.03. |  |
| 5 | Limelight Networks $0.22 per GB (PAYG). Similar to CloudFront. You need to keep the files with them. They have $0.01 for each request if your file sizes are smaller than 250kb! Rackspace is a reseller. | |
| 6 | Internap $0.18 per GB (250GB plan). They have good coverage around the world. SoftLayer is reselling Internap accounts. | |
| 7 | Voxel $0.20 per GB. They have good coverage around the world. Also offers pro-apache support through their extension. |  |
Most of the CDNs are cheaper when you buy through the resellers. But enquire about the support. Most resellers won't offer support. Most of the above CDNs offer control panels and extensive APIs to control your content remotely.
When you publish any new content, you just have to use a webservice call to them and their servers start moving the files to their edge locations around the world. It is that easy generally.
