Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers a Akamai: a content delivery network (CDN).
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Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Cloudflare, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, provides DDoS and bot mitigation security for business domains, as well as a content delivery network (CDN) and web application firewall (WAF).
CloudFlare is much easier to use. It is much cheaper and from our experience, it works so much better. The support staff at CloudFlare has always been helpful and will get on the phone when we need help. Also, CloudFlare helped us get set up on their platform in about an hour …
CloudFlare and CloudFront are good for small sites where budgetary costs are the primary concern but Akamai Ion provides a new level of quality and performance.
I haven't had much experience with other CDNs and to be honest I haven't heard of many more other than Akamai which just goes to show which one is the most trusted and proves to be the best. There are others out there, such as CloudFlare, that claim to provide a similar service …
We've used -- and considered -- a whole number of CDN offerings. The good news is that almost all of the CDN products on the market are terrific, and will pay for themselves via increased customer satisfaction and lower monthly hosting bills. For some cases, we're still more …
I don't have any direct experience with any of the other CDNs, so it's hard to say. Like any solution out there, each service will have its pros and cons. Some will fit your business needs more than others. Akamai is amongst the best and meets our business needs.
CloudFlare is always innovating fast and adding new interesting solutions to the CDN, DNS, and DDoS problems that keep appearing as the internet grows and matures. Due to network effects, using CloudFlare is easier, faster, and more reliable than the competitors, and their …
Cloudflare is easier to setup with free plans available to get started. Secondly, Cloudflare is a proven and trusted solution used by leading technology organizations around the globe which can also scales better to cater for indefinite workloads. Akamai provides lesser free …
Akamai and Edgecast/Verizon are way over-priced, and also require hassling sales people to negotiate prices, and cloudflare just has their prices posted, and don't require a multi-year contract, etc. StackPath is a regular CDN provider, and is probably cheaper than Cloudflare …
We Previously used Akamai for Website Security, and the price wise very high we are a startup company for Online business, we can't send that. we tried a similar product for Web security then finally we got the Cloudflare.
we are more suited with Cloudflare schemes compared to Akamai, as they are aim for the larger enterprise business. I like that Cloudflare has a much more general and neutral approach, while trying to get closer to us each time. In region like southeast Asia, locality is very …
Cloudflare is less expensive and has more features than Akamai. It has many more points of presence and is faster and more robust than Limelight/Edgio. It was the clear winner when we selected them six years ago, and maintains its leadership in this space.
Cloudflare outperforms in majority of the categories such as Ease of Use, Pricing Transparency, Security & Edge computing capabilities with global network reach. Cloudflare is known for providing a seamless onboarding experience for users of varying technical expertise in …
Cloudflare proved to be the winning choice over its competitors because it was the only solution that's so complete. The other solutions we analyzed were convincing for the caching/CDN aspect but had gaps in other aspects such as security or DDoS protection. Cloudflare also …