A10 Thunder ADC vs. Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

I recommend it but would like to mention that the buyer should analyze their needs very well and perform exhaustive service tests prior to purchase.

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The service is really well-suited for pretty much any site that is primarily display-driven (that is, mostly GET requests). The network is able to handle massive volumes of traffic and their POPs have spread out pretty much anywhere that it's easy to get them (so basically everywhere but China and Russia). My team witnessed several large-scale attack attempts on some high-profile websites (attacks in the 10s of millions of requests per second) that were mitigated before ever coming back to the actual application; in one case we didn't realize the attack had happened until we looked at the logs the next day. Because it's a cache store option, the default configuration does not cache POST responses, and it can be difficult to set up things like authenticated paywalls as a result.

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• Load balancing
• Scripting AFLEX
• DDOS mitigation

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• Very performant and fast -- major companies have drastically reduced page load times with Fastly's edge technology.
• Support for many types of media, including video.
• Image add-on makes serving and manipulating images very simple.

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• Functionalities and features do not match our needs.
• Other vendors offer very similar characteristics for lower prices.

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• WAF is hard to configure.
• No comprehensive rate limiting without a pricey upgrade.
• Account access controls are extremely limited.

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Support said the devices will work in our environment but when we had the device working we realized that it was not possible to do what we wanted, for this reason, our experience was not entirely good and we did not like the way they approached us for the sale of the device.

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It’s the fastest and most configurable.

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• A10 Thunder ADC had a negative impact on the company, due to the fact that the client had to monitor a large number of sites, which could not be achieved with this device.
• This led to looking for another alternative.
• It is more beneficial for companies that do not need to monitor a large number of websites as the security and stability provided by the device are excellent.

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• Fastly dramatically reduces load times for clients all over the world thanks to their global system of POPs.
• Fastly is a cost-effective choice when a highly-performant CDN is required and makes it simple to support data that is quickly invalidated.

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