Internap compared to Cloudflare
On this page you can find an overview of the features and pricing of Internap and Cloudflare. 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 | Internap | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| PoPs | 19 | 71 |
| Purge All | Unknown | Fully supported |
| Instant Purge | Unknown | Fully supported |
| Control panel | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Origin Push | Fully supported | Not supported |
| Origin Pull | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Origin Shield | Not supported | Additional costs |
| 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 | Unknown | Additional costs |
| Real time statistics | Fully supported | Additional costs |
| Online signup | Not supported | Fully supported |
| API | Purge, Statistics, Configuration Management | Purge, Statistics, Configuration Management |
| Custom CNAMEs | Unknown | Additional costs |
| Shared SSL Certificates | Fully supported | Fully supported |
| Custom SSL Certificates | Fully supported | Additional costs |
| Wildcard SSL Certificates | Not supported | Not supported |
| Support | Email and Phone support | Email support (free), Phone support (Paid) |
| Video On Demand (VoD) | Fully supported | Not supported |
| RTMP Streaming | Fully supported | Not supported |
| Multiple CDNs | Not supported | Not supported |
| CDN balancing tech | Not supported | Not supported |
| Storage | Fully supported | Not supported |
Pricing Internap vs Cloudflare
| Property | Internap | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| Global flat fee | N/A | N/A |
| NA/EU Traffic (low volume) | N/A | N/A |
| NA/EU Traffic (high volume) | N/A | N/A |
| APAC Traffic | N/A | N/A |
| LATAM Traffic | N/A | N/A |
| Extra costs | N/A | N/A |
INTERNAP Description
Internap (Internap Network Services Corp.) is a large Internet infrastructure provider based in Atlanta, Georgia, US that has been around since 1996. The company offers data centre services, Internet Protocol (IP) services, colocation, virtual and bare metal cloud hosting and CDN services. Their trio of enterprise IP optimisation, CDN and TCP acceleration is geared to deliver an optimal end-user experience.
Acquisitions by Internap have been:
- CO Space (2000) - telco and datacenter services
- VPNX.com (2003) - VPN technology, formerly known as Switchsoft Systems
- VitalStream Holdings Inc. (2007) - CDN services, digital media storage
- Voxel Holdings Inc. (2012) - enterprise cloud and hosting
- iWeb (2013) - cloud hosting
In 2014 Internap announced their commercially available OpenStack compute service named AgileCLOUD. The cloud service exposes the native OpenStack API and provides integrated hybridisation functionality to address a wide range of client needs. The Internap AgileCLOUD is included in the OpenStack Marketplace.
Internap was founded in 1996 and delivers CDN services to customers such as Hi-Rez Studios, Georgia Institute of Technology, Boinc, engage:BDR, Vermont Teddy Bear and Rhapsody.
CLOUDFLARE Description
Not to be confused with Amazon Cloudfront, CloudFlare is a San Francisco-based CDN provider founded in 2009.
The company offers a Free plan, which includes a CloudFlare issued SSL certificate. The features included in the Free plan are basic; more become available to Pro, Business and Enterprise customers.
CloudFlare, together with Akamai, Fastly, Highwinds, Level3 and EdgeCast, is part of the Google Cloud Platform CDN Interconnect program. As part of the collaboration, 30 CloudFlare points-of-presence (PoPs) are directly connected to the Google Cloud infrastructure. When a content request comes in from a Google Cloud origin it will route directly through the interconnect between both parties rather than through the public Internet. As a result, latency is reduced for origin requests. Clients using Google Cloud also receive a discount to their egress traffic.
CloudFlare serves, and has served notable brands such as Reddit, Ello, Cisco, Zendesk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, OkCupid and eHarmony.