Fastly compared to Instart Logic
On this page you can find an overview of the features and pricing of Fastly and Instart Logic. We hope this helps you compare these two Content Delivery Networks. You can find additional tips that help you select the right CDN here.
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| Features | Fastly | Instart Logic |
|---|---|---|
| PoPs | 28 | 30 PoPs + 140 PoPs in China (powered by ChinaCache) |
| Purge All | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Instant Purge | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Control panel | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Origin Push | Not 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 | Not supported | Fully supported |
| SPDY Protocol | Not supported | Fully supported |
| Raw Access Logs | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Real time statistics | Fully supported | Not supported |
| Online signup | Fully supported | Not supported |
| API | Purge, Statistics, Configuration Management | Purge, Statistics, Configuration Management |
| Custom CNAMEs | Fully supported | Not supported |
| Shared SSL Certificates | Fully supported | Unknown |
| Custom SSL Certificates | Partially supported | Unknown |
| Wildcard SSL Certificates | Partially supported | Not supported |
| Support | IRC and Email support. Community Forum | Email and Phone support |
| Video On Demand (VoD) | Not supported | Fully supported |
| RTMP Streaming | Not supported | Fully supported |
| Multiple CDNs | Not supported | Not supported |
| CDN balancing tech | Not supported | Not supported |
| Storage | Not supported | Additional costs |
Pricing Fastly vs Instart Logic
| Property | Fastly | Instart Logic |
|---|---|---|
| Global flat fee | N/A | N/A |
| NA/EU Traffic (low volume) | $0.12 per GB | N/A |
| NA/EU Traffic (high volume) | $0.08 per GB (10TB+) | N/A |
| APAC Traffic | $0.19 per GB | N/A |
| LATAM Traffic | $0.28 per GB | N/A |
| Extra costs | $0.0075 - $0.0160 per 10,000 Requests (region dependent pricing) | N/A |
FASTLY Description
Founded in 2011, Fastly is a relatively new player in the CDN market. As of 2015, the company has raised $130 million from investors Battery Ventures, IDG Ventures, August Capital, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Amplify Partners and ICONIQ Capital.
Self-proclaimed ‘new generation CDN service’, Fastly offers a full-SSD network and PoPs in North America, Brazil, Europe, APAC and Australia & New Zealand. Their Fastly Cloud Accelerator partnership with Google allows Fastly clients to connect directly to the Google Cloud backbone, and configure a Fastly origin shield in front of their GCE storage bucket. The partnership might be considered a way for both parties to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and their S3 storage solution and Cloudfront CDN service. Other CDN providers participating in the Google Cloud Platform CDN Interconnect program are EdgeCast, Highwinds, Level3, Akamai and CloudFlare.
Fastly uses web application accelerator Varnish, and allows clients to upload their custom VCL (Varnish Configuration Language) to the Fastly platform. Currently, there is one alternative to Fastly when it comes to uploading custom VCLs, and that is ‘developer CDN’ section.io.
On-boarding with Fastly is quick & easy and can be done without intervention a sales representative. Their extensive API-tools include purging, stats and config management. For an overview of Fastly’s features, check out the table below or make comparisons with other CDN providers.
Notable customers of Fastly include Twitter, Wired, Kickstarter, Rakuten, Etsy, Shazam, Yelp, GitHub, Firebase, Cloudera, Stripe, New Relic and Imgur.
INSTART LOGIC Description
Instart Logic is a CDN provider founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company is known for its $100 million contract buyout campaign targeted at Akamai customers.
Customers in the Instart Logic portfolio include, or have included: Quora, Washington Post, and Kongregate. At the time of writing, the listings on the website seem out-of-date, as GameStop, Staples, Shutterstock, Yum!, L’Oreal and Pizza Hut no (longer) look to be customers of Instart Logic. At least not for static file delivery.
Through a partnership with ChinaCache, Instart Logic offers coverage of mainland China with points of presence (PoPs) in roughly 140 cities.
Instart Logic supports SPDY.