Company
Launched in 2002, CacheFly developed the world's first TCP-anycast based content delivery network. CacheFly has a focus on optimizing the CDN for throughput and has steadily built out the network to now have 50+ POPs on 6 continents. CacheFly provides a 100% uptime SLA and takes pride in acting as 'consultants to our customers'.
CacheFly website
Products
CacheFly has a wide range of content delivery and security solutions. Deliver cacheable and dynamic content, podcasts, large software downloads and video (live and on-demand).
View the table below for more insight into CacheFly products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Unknown
| Product | |
|---|---|
| Dynamic content delivery | |
| Small file delivery | |
| Large file delivery | |
| Live video | Ultra Low Latency Video Streaming |
| Video on demand | VoD |
| Image Optimization | part of Smart Edge Apps |
| DNS | |
| WAF | Security Suite
|
| Anti-DDoS | Security Suite
|
| Private CDN | Fully custom solution |
| Edge Compute | Smart Edge Apps |
| Origin Storage | Storage Optimization System |
Network
CacheFly has 50+ POPs on 6 continents including in Johannesburg, Dubai, Seoul and São Paulo. The China POPs are available for custom, private CDN implementations.
CacheFly network map
CacheFly China acceleration
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country.
Locations marked with * are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.
| Region | POPs | Locations |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 17 |  Atlanta - Boston - Chicago - Dallas - Davenport - Denver - Los Angeles - Miami - New York - Phoenix - San Jose - San Juan - Seattle - Washington D.C. Calgary - Toronto - Montreal |
| Latin America | 9 |  Buenos Aires Fortaleza - Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo La Paz Bogotá Santiago Querétaro Lima |
| Europe | 14 |  Vienna Zurich Prague Frankfurt Madrid Helsinki Paris London Milan Amsterdam Warsaw Lisbon Bucharest Stockholm |
| Russia & CIS | 2 |  Moscow - St. Petersburg |
| Asia excl. China | 7 |  Hong Kong Tokyo Jakarta Mumbai Seoul Bangkok Singapore |
| China | 2 |  Beijing - Shanghai |
| Oceania | 3 |  Melbourne - Perth - Sydney |
| Middle-East | 5 |  Dubai Tel Aviv Doha Riyadh Istanbul |
| Africa | 1 |  Johannesburg |
Pricing
CacheFly offers its services month-to-month with a discount for 12+ month commit. Free 14 day trial. Pricing is custom built to meet customer requirements for anything over 100 TB/m. Products/add-ons like Image Optimization and Security are priced separately.
CacheFly pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | |
|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | 1 month |
| Minimum monthly costs | $595 (35 TB/m) |
| Requests costs | No |
| Ingress costs | Yes |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | n/a |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | n/a |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | n/a |
Features
View the tables below for more insight into the features CacheFly supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
- = Yes
- = Sort of/partially
- = No
= Extra costs- = Unknown
| Web acceleration | |
|---|---|
| Instant setup | |
| Change propagation delay | 5 - 180s depending on the change |
Apex/root domain OK  |
Must purchase dedicated IP
|
| HTTP/2 | |
| IPv6 | |
| Compression |
Resend from origin, or compress on edge |
| Origin pull - protocol | HTTP and HTTPS
|
| Origin pull - Host header | Set specific Host header value or forward value from client to edge request |
| Origin Shield |
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| Push / upload | FTP. Some storage free, more storage available at additional costs |
| Cache control - CDN caching | Origin headers are honored. Can config overrides |
| Cache control - client caching | Origin headers are forwarded to client. Can config overrides |
| Serve Stale |
CacheFly support team can activate this edge behaviour |
| Purge |
Instant (under 5s) |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge all and by directory, not by tag or header |
| Analytics | Near real-time, lots of metrics |
| Log files | Pull via FTP or have pushed to customer endpoint
|
| API | Purge, analytics, configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | |
|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPS | Free |
| Customer domain HTTPS | Custom pricing |
| Customer cert HTTPS | EV cert and/or Non-SNI possible |
| Token authentication | Self-service activation/configuration |
| Geo blocking | Self-service activation/configuration. Predefined and custom rules |
| Hotlink protection | |
| Basic authentication | Available in a Custom/Private CDN scenario |
| IP white/blacklisting | Custom rules can be scripted (by support team at no extra charge) |
Support
CacheFly provides support via email and phone to all customers, 24/7. Extra support services are available at an additional cost.Learn more about CacheFly support.
| Customer support | |
|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, public |
| Humans | All customers get 24/7 email and phone support and a dedicated implementation/solutions engineer. Extra support ('Elite managed') available at a fee with SLA for support response time |
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