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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai CDN

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAkamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers Akamai Connected Cloud, a content delivery network (CDN) with a variety of services used to guarantee application, API, and media delivery.N/A

    Entrust Standard SSL Certificates

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AEntrust Standard SSL Certificates, also known as Organization validated certificates, offer strong encryption and browser trust, and include unlimited reissues, and unlimited server licensing. In addition to securing information between client browsers and servers, Standard SSL Certificates also secure information between two servers and come with a website security package that finds malware on websites and protects them from being blacklisted

    $24

    per year

    StackPath Edge Delivery

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe StackPath (formerly Highwinds) Content Delivery Network provides a scalable DNS with load balancing, traffic management, DDoS protection and Web Application Firewall (WAF) to support and protect enterprise websites and applications.N/A
    Pricing
    Akamai CDNEntrust Standard SSL CertificatesStackPath Edge Delivery
    Editions & Modules
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    Secure Email Personal
    $24
    per year
    Standard SSL
    $199
    per year
    Advantage SSL
    $239
    per year
    Document Signing Individual
    $315
    per year
    Document Signing Group
    $315
    per year
    UC Multi-Domain
    $319
    per year
    EV Multi-Domain SSL
    $429
    per year
    Wildcard SSL
    $699
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Akamai CDNEntrust Standard SSL CertificatesStackPath Edge Delivery
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSave 13% with a 2-year purchase, and 18% with a 3-year purchase.
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    StackPath
    Chose StackPath Edge Delivery
    Better CDN pricing than Amazon CloudFront and Fastly. We knew Akamai was expensive but it is the best when it comes to content and application delivery. For CDN and Object Storage, it is easier to setup and manage than AWS. Fastly offers different services than StackPath and …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Akamai CDNEntrust Standard SSL CertificatesStackPath Edge Delivery
    Small Businesses
    Amazon CloudFront
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Amazon CloudFront
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
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    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai CDNEntrust Standard SSL CertificatesStackPath Edge Delivery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Akamai CDNEntrust Standard SSL CertificatesStackPath Edge Delivery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    Akamai is a well-established brand name with a great product. It meets and many time exceeds the needs for global content delivery and security management layer at the edge. Fine grain security tuning seems cumbersome as the definition of the app keeps changing. It also requires an investment of time for the setup which doesn't necessarily make sense for smaller scale scenarios. Some products offered by AWS, Azure or the Google Cloud can be more tightly integrated with cloud provider offerings thus easier to configure.
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    Entrust Corporation
    Because they have been around so long and are so well known there is a high level of confidence in their product. They have a full range of PKI products and are excellent support. They have always been available whenever we had a question. I would say that they are the gold standard in PKI.
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    StackPath
    Well suited to:
    1. Startups - Very competitive pricing, better than AWS for object storage and CDN.
    2. The less technical - for those looking to implement a CDN, it doesn't get any easier than StackPath
    3. The more technical - Well documented API, serverless scripting and container deployments
    4. Fast object delivery - StackPath tends to be faster (sometimes much more ) than AWS S3. See below however...
    Not so well suited to:
    1. Multi-tiered web applications
    2. Ultra high bandwidth requirements. Stackpath isn't meant to be a substitute for AWS or Azure when you're looking to push 100s of TBs of traffic.
    3. Object storage works well if you don't need fine-grained bucket lifecycle or permissions management.
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Content offloading - once rules are set up within Akamai you don't need to even think about how many images or large JavaScript or CSS files (for example) are being served from your own estate, Akamai takes care of it all via rules that are quick, easy and flexible.
    • Page caching - for pages that don't change very often Akamai allows you to set up rules, quickly and easily, to serve up your page content for you, which takes even more load away from your origin servers.
    • Quick rollback - the Akamai system allows easy testing of rules and changes via a staging system, and also offers a quick rollback option, which is perfect for the rare occasions when something has been set up incorrectly.
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    Entrust Corporation
    • The renewal process is incredibly simple.
    • Turn around for new requests is very fast.
    • Full email notification system for application owners.
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    StackPath
    • Price competitive.
    • Easy to use.
    • Good reporting.
    • Quick to deploy.
    • Start-up friendly.
    • Good technical information via blog, FAQ and community discussion.
    • I can talk to real person for urgent support.
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • The interface in their control centre could be a bit more user-friendly with some of the settings in places that you wouldn't expect them to be. The search offsets this problem to an extent but it's still sometimes slower than you'd like to find what you are looking for.
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    Entrust Corporation
    • There are so many purveyors of SSL certificates or SSL certificate resalers today. Entrust is not competitive on price.
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    StackPath
    • Analytics.
    • Many options hidden in API.
    • Web console.
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    Support Rating
    Akamai
    Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster.
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    Entrust Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    StackPath
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    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 likely to suggest CloudFlare (which has a free tier) or an integrated offering from a cloud provider, like Cloudfront.
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    Entrust Corporation
    Entrust offers an easy to use, fully featured cloud framework for certificate management. This framework is very solid and highly recommended as it gives my business the ability to remain agile while giving persistence to my overall security posture.
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    StackPath
    When we identified the need for having a Content Delivery Network to improve our website loading performance we researched a bit and found StackPath. Reading its reviews and the info on its website we have found that they had everything we needed so we didn't need to look for other products.
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Akamai RoI improved over a period of times since it comes with heavy costs, however global deliveries in over 100 counties and global web platforms usage helps improve RoI
    • With the complex UI challenges, ROI could be impacted negatively when you have to invest in operations and time.
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    Entrust Corporation
    • Their product is necessary for us to provide modern services to our patients and still remain compliant with government regulation.
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    StackPath
    • Easy 25-30% improvement in website performance vs non CDN solution
    • Less expensive and faster object storage than AWS
    • Aided greatly in maintaining KPIs in terms of performance, availability
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