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.

Fastly and Instart Logic popmap

Legend:

= Both

= Fastly

= Instart Logic

Fully supported Partially supported Additional costs Not supported Unknown

Feature comparison of Fastly and Instart Logic
Features	Fastly	Instart Logic
PoPs	36	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	Fully 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	Fully supported	Unknown
Wildcard SSL Certificates	Fully supported	Not supported
Support	Slack, IRC and Email support 24/7/365. Plus Community Forum	Email and Phone support
Video On Demand (VoD)	Fully supported	Fully supported
RTMP Streaming	Fully 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

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	Below 10TB: $0.19 per GB 10TB+: $0.14 per GB	N/A
LATAM Traffic	Below 10TB: $0.28 per GB 10TB+: $0.24 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.