After a short Research, Inc. rating of our inexpensive CDN providers led BunnyCDN , BelugaCDN and OVH . Let's compare their offers.
BunnyCDN
Website: https://bunnycdn.com
In our estimation, the most competitive player in the low-cost CDN market. Tariffs from $ 0.01 / GB per consumption without having to buy any monthly subscription. There is an option to buy a super-cheap Volume plan at 7 points of presence for $ 0.005 / GB
Huge geography of points of presence (POP), including Russia. To "try" outright and without any questions, they give 1TB of traffic for 14 days.
Advantages :
- 42 points of presence in 28 countries on all continents, including Russia
- excellent admin interface, I really didn't want to leave
- has its own Wordpress plugin
- located in the EU, if anyone cares about the GDPR
- allows delivery of adult content subject to EU legislation
Disadvantages *:
- the period of validity of funds on the balance after replenishment - 1 year
BelugaCDN
Website: https://belugacdn.com The
second popular low-cost carrier in the content delivery market with a price of $ 0.01 / GB , plus you can save additional money when buying monthly traffic packages.
Here, by default, only 9 so-called super POPs are available, which are only in Europe and the USA. The service has a 30-day trial period, but you need to enter a credit card number, so be careful that there are no unnecessary charges later.
Advantages :
- there is a plugin for Grafana
- Anti-DDoS by default
Disadvantages *:
- 9 superPOPs on 2 continents: Europe and the USA
- for the trial period they want a credit card number
OVH
Website: https://www.ovh.com
Package rates for CDN from a well-known French hoster are comparable to the prices of the previously reviewed services only when ordering large volumes of traffic.
There are only 3 points of presence declared for the service, which seems very unusual for content delivery networks. In such cases, it may be more optimal and cheaper to build your CDN based on VPS or dedicated servers. OVH does not have a free trial period.
Advantages :
- large European hosting company with its own infrastructure
- Anti-DDoS out of the box
Disadvantages *:
- small number of points of presence
- buying only a fixed amount of traffic (1TB, 10TB, 100TB, etc.)
- no free trial
Outcome
Almost all CDN services have similar basic functionality: API, the ability to use your own SSL certificate, detailed statistics, etc. Therefore, usually the key point when choosing is the price and location of points of presence. With the price, everything is clear, with the points of presence - we choose the network that has POP in the regions with your audience.
If content delivery is focused only on Europe and North America, you can connect any CDN. These are popular regions that all providers have. If the site is still visited by users from Russia and other parts of the world, see BunnyCDN .
* the shortcomings are stated in the subjective opinion and as a personal value judgment of the author. In other words, what is a disadvantage for the author - for the reader it may be good