Company
Founded in 1998, publicly traded on NASDAQ (CCIH), ChinaCache is the first CDN in China and generally considered to be one of the better CDNs for China delivery because of their network, knowledge and experience from working with (enterprise) multinational customers. The ChinaCache network and services are not limited to mainland China and ChinaCache has been growing steadily outside China in the past years.
ChinaCache website
Products
ChinaCache has a range of content delivery & acceleration products, including streaming media.
View the table below for more insight into ChinaCache products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Unknown
| Product | |
|---|---|
| Dynamic content delivery | Dynamic Content Acceleration |
| Small file delivery | Static Content Acceleration |
| Large file delivery | Download Acceleration |
| Live video | Media Acceleration |
| Video on demand | Media Acceleration |
| Image Optimization | |
| DNS | |
| WAF | |
| Anti-DDoS | |
| Private CDN | |
| Edge Compute | |
Network
ChinaCache has many POPs inside China and claims to be the #1 CDN there. Outside China, ChinaCache has good coverage in Asia and US, plus a few POPs in Europe and one in Brazil.
ChinaCache network map
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 | 8 |  Chicago - Dallas - Los Angeles - Miami - New York - San Jose - Seattle - Washington D.C. |
| Latin America | 1 |  São Paulo |
| Europe | 3 |  Frankfurt Paris London |
| Russia & CIS | 0 | |
| Asia excl. China | 10 |  Hong Kong Tokyo Jakarta Phnom Penh Seoul Ulaanbaatar Kuala Lumpur Singapore Kaohsiung - Taipei |
| China | 500 |  All major cities and provinces in China |
| Oceania | 0 | |
| Middle-East | 1 |  Doha |
| Africa | 1 |  Dar es Salaam |
Pricing
ChinaCache typically requires annual contracts with pricing depending on traffic volume and what features/services you need. Get in touch to learn more about their services and prices.
ChinaCache contact form
| Pricing & contract duration | |
|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | 12 months |
| Minimum monthly costs | Unknown |
| Requests costs | None |
| Ingress costs | Unknown |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | Unknown |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | Unknown |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | Unknown |
Features
View the tables below for more insight into the features ChinaCache 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 minutes |
Apex/root domain OK  |
Non-Anycasted network |
| HTTP/2 | |
| IPv6 | At customer request |
| Compression |
|
| Origin pull - protocol | HTTP and HTTPS |
| Origin pull - Host header | Configure specific other Host header
|
| Origin Shield |
|
| Push / upload | |
| Cache control - CDN caching | CDN can honor origin headers
|
| Cache control - client caching | |
| Serve Stale |
|
| Purge |
<3 minutes delay |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge all, purge by directory |
| Analytics | |
| Log files | Logs are daily or hourly |
| API | Purge, analytics, billing. Not configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | |
|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPS | Only for testing |
| Customer domain HTTPS | |
| Customer cert HTTPS | |
| Token authentication | |
| Geo blocking | |
| Hotlink protection | |
| Basic authentication | |
| IP white/blacklisting | |
Support
| Customer support | |
|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, but not public. |
| Humans | Different levels of support are available. |