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Featured Review
Eduardo Oviedo-Blanco
A CDN solution to enhance loading times and streamline navigation
Shubham Chakraworty
Has a reliable user interface and a straightforward setup process
The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly. It makes the sites more reliable.
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  • "In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
  • "I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
  • "Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "The pricing has been very competitive."

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    Questions from the Community
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Edgio Global CDN?
    Top Answer:The product is affordable.
    What needs improvement with Edgio Global CDN?
    Top Answer:Edgio could improve their documentation.
    What is your primary use case for Edgio Global CDN?
    Top Answer:We use the solution for high volume traffic. It is used across various e-commerce platforms to enhance loading times and streamline navigation, ultimately optimizing user experience.
    What do you like most about Fastly?
    Top Answer:Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fastly?
    Top Answer:The pricing has been very competitive.
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    What needs improvement with Fastly?
    Top Answer:Stronger analytics would be helpful like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused… more »
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    Ranking
    10th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    751
    Comparisons
    600
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    312
    Rating
    9.0
    7th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    1,366
    Comparisons
    1,151
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    591
    Rating
    8.6
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    Limelight Content Delivery, Limelight Orchestrate Delivery, Limelight Origin Storage
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    Edgio
    Fastly
    Overview

    Edgio helps build and deliver secure web apps across the globe in milliseconds. Our fully programmable edge network offers comprehensive services to maximize security, performance availability and site operations. 

    All services run at the edge of our private, global network with 250 Tbps of bandwidth capacity. We process 5% of all web traffic and are rapidly growing. Edgio is trusted and relied on by TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach.

    We offer two best-of-breed CDN services, depending on your needs:

    Global CDN: Ranked as one of the fastest and largest CDNs on earth – our private global network gives you the reliability, bandwidth, and compute capacity to support the most demanding media and software downloads worldwide.

    Next-Gen Web CDN: Natively unify fundamental web application services for protection, acceleration, and development. Our web CDN enables better coordination, management and visibility across your web and API properties. 

    Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.
    Sample Customers
    TD Ameritrade, Plus500, Solvay Bank, Yahoo, Deckers Brands, and Coach
    Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise63%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Edgio Global CDN is ranked 10th in CDN with 1 review while Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews. Edgio Global CDN is rated 9.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Edgio Global CDN writes "A CDN solution to enhance loading times and streamline navigation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Edgio Global CDN is most compared with Verizon EdgeCast, Cloudflare, Fortinet FortiDDoS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Amazon CloudFront, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and Azure Web Application Firewall.

    See our list of best CDN vendors, best Web Application Firewall (WAF) vendors, and best Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection vendors.

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