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CenturyLink 4.3

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RESPONSE TIME

36ms

RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Response Time
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

Availability

99.36%

RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Availability
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

THROUGHPUT

15,207Mbps

RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Throughput
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

points of presence

100

Point of Presence

Total number of CDN Provider Point of Presence. CDN providers might have multiple POPs / Nodes per edge location.
9 0 5 5 3 42 9 30
  • SSl . Yes
  • HTTP/2 . Yes
  • COMPRESSION . Yes
  • IPV6 . Yes
  • ORIGIN SHIELD . Yes
  • PCI COMPLIANT . Yes

CenturyLink Pricing

Pick a plan that fits your needs.

Basic

$ 29 / Mo

5 Websites

  • 700GB bandwidth/mo Inclusive Bandwidth Per Month With Access To 100 CenturyLink Global Edge Locations (Delivery From Mainland China Requires A Valid ICP Licence And Is Subject To An Additional Monthly Fee).
  • $0.04 per GB all POPs One Simple Per GB Rate With Access To The Global Network Map, 100 Edge Locations Excluding Mainland China.
  • 100 POPs
  • Monthly Rolling There Are No Long-term Contracts Or Commitments. You Can Use CenturyLink Month To Month And Cancel At Any Time You’d Like.
  • Email Support
  • API & Online Admin You Will Receive Direct Access To CenturyLink Media Online Admin (Portal) and API.
  • 99.99% Availability SLA
  • Web & Streaming Includes Web and Streaming Cacheable Content Acceleration Via HTTP And HTTPS (SSL Hosting is subject to an additional Monthly fee). Includes CenturyLink: (1) Geographic Intelligence; (2) Token Authentication; (3) Proxy Authentication; (4) Header Authentication; (5) Referrer Blocking; (6) IP/CIDR Blocking; (7) Response Code Re-direct; (7) Shared Domain SSL; (8) Log Delivery; (9) Online Media Portal.

Plus

$ 99 / Mo

15 Websites

  • 2,800GB bandwidth/mo Inclusive Bandwidth Per Month With Access To 100 CenturyLink Global Edge Locations (Delivery From Mainland China Requires A Valid ICP Licence And Is Subject To An Additional Monthly Fee).
  • $0.035 per GB all POPs One Simple Per GB Rate With Access To The Global Network Map, 100 Edge Locations Excluding Mainland China.
  • 100 POPs
  • Monthly Rolling There Are No Long-term Contracts Or Commitments. You Can Use CenturyLink Month To Month And Cancel At Any Time You’d Like.
  • Email Support
  • API & Online Admin You Will Receive Direct Access To CenturyLink Media Online Admin (Portal) and API.
  • 99.99% Availability SLA
  • Web & Media Includes Web and Streaming Cacheable Content Acceleration Via HTTP And HTTPS (SSL Hosting is subject to an additional Monthly fee). Includes CenturyLink: (1) Geographic Intelligence; (2) Token Authentication; (3) Proxy Authentication; (4) Header Authentication; (5) Referrer Blocking; (6) IP/CIDR Blocking; (7) Response Code Re-direct; (7) Shared Domain SSL; (8) Log Delivery; (9) Online Media Portal.

Pro

$ 499 / Mo

30 Websites

  • 16,500GB bandwidth/mo Inclusive Bandwidth Per Month With Access To 100 CenturyLink Global Edge Locations (Delivery From Mainland China Requires A Valid ICP Licence And Is Subject To An Additional Monthly Fee).
  • $0.03 per GB all POPs One Simple Per GB Rate With Access To The Global Network Map, 100 Edge Locations Excluding Mainland China.
  • 100 POPs
  • Monthly Rolling There Are No Long-term Contracts Or Commitments. You Can Use CenturyLink Month To Month And Cancel At Any Time You’d Like.
  • Email Support
  • API & Online Admins You Will Receive Direct Access To CenturyLink Media Online Admin (Portal) and API.
  • 99.99% Availability SLA
  • Web & Media Includes Web and Streaming Cacheable Content Acceleration Via HTTP And HTTPS (SSL Hosting is subject to an additional Monthly fee). Includes CenturyLink: (1) Geographic Intelligence; (2) Token Authentication; (3) Proxy Authentication; (4) Header Authentication; (5) Referrer Blocking; (6) IP/CIDR Blocking; (7) Response Code Re-direct; (7) Shared Domain SSL; (8) Log Delivery; (9) Online Media Portal.

Enterprise

  • Enterprise support Enhanced Enterprise support
  • Enterprise SLA Enhanced enterprise SLA
  • Unlimited websites Unlimited website and configurations
  • Named technical resources Named technical resources from CDN provider and CDNfinder
  • Value added features Access to all features and services including value added security, DNS, etc
  • Volume based pricing Exclusive volume pricing based on our heavily discounted aggregation rates
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provider’s focus

  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Reseller 1
  • Private 9
  • Federation 3
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4

pros

  • Global, well connected, privately owned fibre network
  • ≈ 50Tbps of egress capacity

CONS

  • Very basic self provisioning online admin

edge locations

Last updated April, 2019

performance

Data by Cedexis 25 April 2024
Response Time, ms
  • North America 36
  • Oceania 165
  • Europe 31
  • Asia 95
  • Africa 207
  • South America 44
Availability, %
  • North America 99.36
  • Oceania 100.00
  • Europe 98.95
  • Asia 98.96
  • Africa 96.97
  • South America 98.89
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 15,207
  • Oceania 1,187
  • Europe 20,041
  • Asia 9,117
  • Africa 1,524
  • South America 16,853

supported services

  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Private 9
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4
  • Not Supported
  • Unknown
  • Supported
  • Additional Cost
  • Cacheable Content Acceleration Commonly referred as CDN, is the core service that brings cacheable content closer to the end-users either geographically or logically by caching content on CDN pops or edges so that is scalable, available and fast to deliver.
  • Non-Cacheable Content Acceleration CDN provider creates a persistent connection between customer origin and the closest CDN edge location to eliminate the tcp 3 way handshake and tcp slow start. then applies a series of tcp optimisations (multIPlexing, etc) between CDN edge locations to deliver non-cacheable content as fast and efficiently as possible to the end-users.
  • Shared CDN Domain SSL CDN provider generates a hostname that is used by customer to HTTPs. domain and SSL certificate belongs to CDN provider.
  • Shared IP SSL Hosting Commonly called SNI, your SSL certificate is hosted in each CDN pop/edge location on a shared IP among other certificates. SNI SSL it’s not supported by some older browsers like IE6 and it’s not as secure as dedicated IP.
  • Dedicated IP SSL Hosting your SSL certificate is hosted in each CDN pop/edge location on a dedicated IP and dedicated resources.
  • RTMP to RTMP Streaming customer origin publishes RTMP format and CDN provider delivers in RTMP format.
  • RTMP to HTTP Streaming customer origin publishes RTMP format and CDN provider transcode to HTTP and delivers in HTTP format.
  • HTTP to HTTP Streaming customer origin publishes HTTP format and CDN provider delivers in HTTP format .
  • Image Optimization CDN transforms customer images on demand at the edge. it can dynamically resize, convert, adjust quality, crop / trim, change orientations and image background colors, and much more.
  • DDoS Mitigation DDoS mitigation is a set of techniques or tools for resisting or mitigating the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on networks attached to the internet by protecting the target and relay networks.
  • WAF A web application firewall (or WAF) filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web application. a WAF is differentiated from a regular firewall in that a WAF is able to filter the content of specific web applications while regular firewalls serve as a safety gate between servers.
  • Bot Mitigation Bot Mitigation is a set of techniques or tools for resisting or mitigating the impact of bots attacks.
  • Managed DNS globally distributed, redundant DNS service.
  • DNS Failover a service that guarantees that as soon as your website, service, or internet connection is offline, all your traffic will be automatically pointed over to a secondary IP address, server, or provider you have set up at another location.
  • DNS Traffic Manager DNS traffic manager is a DNS based traffic load balancer that enables customers to distribute traffic optimally based on set roles.

supported features

  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Private 9
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4
  • Not Supported
  • Unknown
  • Supported
  • Additional Cost
  • SSL Hosting the ability to host customer SSL certificate on each CDN provider pop/edge location.
  • HTTP/2 Enabled HTTP/2 (originally named HTTP/2.0) is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the world wide web. it was developed from the earlier experimental speedy protocol, originally developed by google.
  • IPV6 Enabled Internet protocol version 6 (IPV6) is the most recent version of the internet protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the internet. IPV6 was developed by the internet engineering task force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticIPated problem of IPV4 address exhaustion. IPV6 is intended to replace IPV4.
  • Gzip Compression compressing your website pages and static assets on the web/hosting server is a great way to improve your site speed overall. gzIP compression reduces the size of static content which subsequently makes a website load faster. most modern browsers support compression of html, css, and javascrIPt files.
  • PCI Compliment PCI DSS (payment card industry data security standard) is a set of regulations governing information security that applies to all organizations taking credit or debit card payments. PCI DSS is a worldwide standard that is designed to reduce card fraud and ensure that businesses take card payments securely.
  • Custom Roles the ability to setup custom roles over.
  • Origin Shield A mid-tier caching layer that sits between the CDN and your origin to protect you from request overload.
  • Raw Logs The ability to setup custom roles over origin shield: a mid-tier caching layer that sits between the CDN and your origin to protect you from request overload.
  • Real-time Statistics Statistics are published realtime with a delay of maximum 5 minutes.
  • Instant Setup the ability to instantly setup (self-provision) the CDN service.
  • Instant Purge the ability to instantly (up to 10/15 minutes globally) invalidate CDN cache content.
  • Origin Pull CDN to fetch content from customer origin.
  • Origin Push CDN to fetch content from CDN storage instead of customer origin. requires purchase of CDN storage.
  • Geoblocking Geo-blocking or geoblocking is a form of technological protection measure where access to internet content is restricted based upon the user's geographical location.
  • Token Authentication Token-based authentication is a security technique that authenticates the users who attempt to log in to a server, a network, or some other secure system, using a security token provided by the server.

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DETAILS
Est. 1TB
$1,250/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 50TB
$9,500/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 250TB
$22,500/mo arrow-image 50%

RESPONSE TIME

26ms arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Response Time
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

AVAILABILITY

99.02% arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Availability
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

THROUGHPUT

16,866Mbps arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Throughput
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

points of presence

2200
Point of Presence

Total number of CDN Provider Point of Presence. CDN providers might have multiple POPs / Nodes per edge location.
  • SSl . Yes
  • HTTP/2 . Yes
  • COMPRESSION . Yes
  • IPV6 . Yes
  • ORIGIN SHIELD . Yes
  • PCI COMPLIANT . Yes
300 0 50 75 50 650 75 1000
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CDNetworks 4.8 / 5

Details

basic plan
$49/mo arrow-image 50%
plus plan
$199/mo arrow-image 50%
pro plan
$599/mo arrow-image 50%

RESPONSE TIME

51ms arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Response Time
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

AVAILABILITY

82.65% arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Availability
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

THROUGHPUT

8,343Mbps arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Throughput
Last 24 Hours: 25/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

points of presence

160
Point of Presence

Total number of CDN Provider Point of Presence. CDN providers might have multiple POPs / Nodes per edge location.
  • SSl . Yes
  • HTTP/2 . Yes
  • COMPRESSION . Yes
  • IPV6 . Yes
  • ORIGIN SHIELD . Yes
  • PCI COMPLIANT . Yes
27 20 5 13 18 21 10 19
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Fastly 4.8 / 5

Details

Est. 1TB
$100/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 50TB
$3,000/mo arrow-image 50%
Est. 250TB
$12,000/mo arrow-image 50%

RESPONSE TIME

27ms arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Response Time
Last 24 Hours: 24/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

AVAILABILITY

99.28% arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Availability
Last 24 Hours: 24/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

THROUGHPUT

19,245Mbps arrow-image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Report: Throughput
Last 24 Hours: 24/04/2024
Geography: North America
Percentile: 50th Percentile

points of presence

50
Point of Presence

Total number of CDN Provider Point of Presence. CDN providers might have multiple POPs / Nodes per edge location.
  • SSl . Yes
  • HTTP/2 . Yes
  • COMPRESSION . Yes
  • IPV6 . Yes
  • ORIGIN SHIELD . Yes
  • PCI COMPLIANT . Yes
13 0 2 1 0 8 3 23
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Nanneq

It’s rare to find a team as obsessed over optimization as we are!

CDNfinder team has helped to improve our global web performance significantly, which helped us overcome the issues faced growth and success we are experiencing.

MySupermarket     Nanneq

Head of IT

Sorin Brabete

CDNFinder was our Swiss army knife when we were looking for a new CDN and DNS provider. It allowed us to quickly review and filter various offers based on selected criteria and identify the best option.

An ideal time saver that I would highly recommend!

SoftPedia     Sorin

Head of Development

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