Alibaba Cloud CDN vs. Edgio Delivery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alibaba Cloud CDN
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Alibaba Cloud CDN delivers content to users from the nodes that are nearest them, accelerating the response to user requests and increasing the response rate. CDN also resolves the delivery latency problem that is usually caused by distribution, bandwidth, and server performance issues. CDN has been applied in multiple scenarios, including site acceleration, on-demand streaming, and live streaming.N/A
Edgio Delivery
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Edgio (formerly Limelight Networks, rebranded to Edgio after the acquisition of Edgecast) offers their global edge network to bring data closer to every user, delivering content faster, safer and easier. Edgio Delivery boasts more than 7,000 global interconnections to last-mile networks to ensure customers are getting their content via the most optimized routes. After Limelight Networks acquired Edgecast, a content delivery network (CDN) begun at Yahoo and acquired by Verizon in 2013 (becoming…N/A
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud CDN is well suited for the below scenarios -
  • if you want to get started quickly and don't want to go through a lot of settings ups then go for it.
  • The documentation is really good.
  • The speed and delivery network and billing price ratio is quite good and in some cases better than competitors.
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Edgio (Limelight Networks)
Limelight's tech support and their attitude are tremendous. They are always available, willing to assist and quick. They are problem solvers with a can-do attitude.
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Pros
Alibaba Cloud
  • It provides a great documentation to get started with, which makes the life of Devs easy
  • The UI and the metrics graphs are beautify crafted, so all the insights can be easily seen when logged into the system
  • The product is really really fast, it makes your app fly. It gives the extra boost that you need in scaling up.
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Edgio (Limelight Networks)
  • We used Limelight Networks (LLNW) for content storage and reporting. They continued to update and improve the platform. Their customer communication approach had evolved over the years to become very good.
  • We webcast live events throughout North America and abroad from multiple locations for multiple clients, simultaneously.
  • We built applications on top of LLNW infrastructure.
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Cons
Alibaba Cloud
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN doesn't have the automatic SSL attachment to web apps, which can be great if provided.
  • A economical and startup friendly billing plan can be added.
  • CDN locations needs to be increased.
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Edgio (Limelight Networks)
  • We found the LLNW business model and therefore workflow is not set up for multiple live webcasts. It can be done but it is not cost-effective as compared to competitors.
  • While their contracts evolve to be more competitive, those original customers/supporters are trapped in old un-competitive contracts and sales blames the lawyers for their inability to make changes.
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Alternatives Considered
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud CDN is very cost-efficient and faster in some cases than the competitors. It also provides the latest documentation, so you don't have to go through hundred of pages of decade-old documentation like some of the competitors. Along with that they provides state of the art analytics and insights platform which makes the decision making process smooth.
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Edgio (Limelight Networks)
We have moved our live webcasting and archived hosting away from LLNW. There were some technical hurdles that we could not overcome, even with their technical support. For our business model, LLNW's fee structure was not competitive with others in their space.

We do appreciate them for trying though.
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Return on Investment
Alibaba Cloud
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN has boosted our web performance by 300X which ensured more user to come to our platform
  • Addition of their CDN also guaranteed Zero downtime in our app.
  • Their faster issue resolving and great support engineers are always helping us whenever there's a issue.
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Edgio (Limelight Networks)
  • We built our live and archived webcasting part of our business around the LLNW platform. We built a successful business with the assistance of their tools and network. Management is really working hard to ensure clients are happy and are being assisted by the organization.
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