| Features | CDN77 | Limelight |
|---|---|---|
| PoPs | 32 | 80+ |
| Purge All | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Instant Purge | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Control panel | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Origin Push | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Origin Pull | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Origin Shield | Fully supported | Not supported |
| GZIP Compression | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Custom Rules | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| HTTP/2 Protocol | Fully supported | Not supported |
| SPDY Protocol | Not supported | Not supported |
| Raw Access Logs | Additional costs | Fully supported |
| Real time statistics | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Online signup | Fully supported | Not supported |
| API | Purge, Statistics, Configuration Management | Purge; Add, update and remove properties (Limelight Orchestrate Video API) |
| Custom CNAMEs | Fully supported | |
| Shared SSL Certificates | Fully supported | Unknown |
| Custom SSL Certificates | Fully supported | Additional costs |
| Wildcard SSL Certificates | Fully supported | Additional costs |
| Support | Phone, Skype, Chat and Email support | 24⁄7 Phone and Email support |
| Video On Demand (VoD) | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| RTMP Streaming | Not supported | Fully supported |
| Multiple CDNs | Not supported | Not supported |
| CDN balancing tech | Not supported | Not supported |
| Storage | Free up to 50GB | Additional costs |
Pricing CDN77 vs Limelight
| Property | CDN77 | Limelight |
|---|---|---|
| Global flat fee | N/A | N/A |
| NA/EU Traffic (low volume) | $0.049 per GB | N/A |
| NA/EU Traffic (high volume) | $0.035 per GB (101TB+) | N/A |
| APAC Traffic | $0.125 per GB | N/A |
| LATAM Traffic | $0.185 per GB | N/A |
| Extra costs | N/A | N/A |
CDN77 Description
In 2011, CDN provider CDN77 was founded with the aim of building a CDN that was ‘transparent, fast and flexible’ and to make it suitable for developers. It was originally built on top of OnApp but since the end of 2014, they operate their own infrastructure.
The provider is headquartered in the United Kingdom in London, and have another office in Prague, Czech Republic.
On-boarding with CDN77 is quick and easy and can be done autonomously via the website. They offer a 14-day free trial, no creditcard required.
Since March 2016, CDN77 has implemented Google’s Brotli compression, an effective compression algorithm for common assets like CSS files, HTML and Javascript. Brotli is said to better reduce data size compared to GZIP by up to 40%.
CDN77’s customer portfolio includes CentOS, Gentoo, phpMyAdmin, Hubble Space Telescope, European Space Agency, R2 Games, Gajin, Rambler.ru, Victorinox, Scania.
LIMELIGHT Description
Limelight Networks is an Arizona-based CDN provider that owns and operates its own content delivery network. The company was founded in 2001 and has offices in the US, Europe and Asia.
Limelight offers regular CDN services for static content, website acceleration, video streaming (Limelight Orchestrate) and cloud storage. Some of the services in the Limelight portfolio came to be from a variety of acquisitions done by the company in the past. Acquired companies include AcceloWeb (website acceleration), Kiptronic (video) and Delve Networks (video).
In 2006, the CDN provider was sued by Akamai Technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later by Level3 over alleged patent infringements. In 2015, after a long string of decisions, came an end to the back-and-forth between Akamai and Limelight: Limelight was held liable for direct infringement of an Akamai-held patent by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In response to the ruling, Limelight Networks (NASDAQ:LLNW) fell greatly.
As of today, Limelight is still fighting a portion of the August 2015 decision, prolonging an already long-standing dispute against Akamai.
Limelight serves, or has served notable customers such as Disney, EA Sports, MySpace, Harpo Productions, MTV, Nintendo, Heineken and Carrefour. With the exception of the latter two, these customers are seemingly no longer with Limelight.