Azure CDN vs. CacheFly CDN

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure CDN
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers a content delivery network, Azure CDN.N/A
CacheFly CDN
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
CacheFly offers a content delivery network.
$0
per month
Pricing
Azure CDNCacheFly CDN
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
per month
Business
From $295.00
per month
Enterprise
From $2,495.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure CDNCacheFly CDN
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree Plan $0/mo, 5TB, 1 Domain, Core Network - 19 PoPs North America and Europe, 24/7 Email Support Business Plans from $295/mo, 12TB, 50 Domains, Global Network – 64 PoPs, 24/7 Email & Phone Support Enterprise Plans from $2,495/mo, 64TB, 500 Domains, Global Network + Edge Acceleration Proxies – 109 PoPs, 24/7 Email, Phone, & Slack Support
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Community Pulse
Azure CDNCacheFly CDN
Considered Both Products
Azure CDN
Chose Azure CDN
Well, Azure CDN is a reliable and user-friendly content delivery network. Additionally, it performs multiple tasks that helps us in website management.
Chose Azure CDN
We did not evaluate any other CDN solution because we choosed Microsoft Azure as our cloud provider, so the Azure CDN choice was easy.
Furthermore, the speed at which we managed to stand up the CDN and push content in it was very appreciated during our website development, so we …
Chose Azure CDN
More user friendly and it’s so easy to learn, the prices may be close to each other, but the service is excellent.
Chose Azure CDN
Azure CDN is very similar to other CDN choices -- we generally choose it when the decision to deploy with Microsoft Azure has already been made and the software architecture requires a CDN. Because Azure CDN is very similar to choices from a number of other vendors, we usually …
Chose Azure CDN
Azure CDN is certainly the favorite when you're already working in Azure like us. CloudFront has programmability and should obviously be considered first if you're already on AWS. I've seen use of CloudFlare for one-off sites (EG, my friends who are WordPress people and are …
Chose Azure CDN
We did not evaluate any other CDN's before we selected Azure. We heavily use Azure for our development and infrastructure efforts so choosing the Azure CDN was easy. The only thing we compared it to was standing up a Windows Server VM and pointing a CDN URL to it allowing it to …
CacheFly CDN
Chose CacheFly CDN
Pricing was always competitive, but when it appeared someone else could do better Cachefly always matched.
Best Alternatives
Azure CDNCacheFly CDN
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.9 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.9 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Score 8.0 out of 10
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure CDNCacheFly CDN
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Azure CDNCacheFly CDN
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure CDN has at hand an infinity of applications and tools to implement in your system and have better control of your data in a clean and secure platform on the web, we recommend this program since the percentage of solutions provided by this program is very high and find a way to make each user's job easier.
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CacheFly CDN will open new doors for you to make your place in the online business world. This tool will help you a lot in increasing your productivity on a larger scale worldwide. This is the most appropriately designed tool that will help you meet all the needs of your business. If I talk about my organization I would say it is very useful too for productivity in our organization.
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Pros
  • New websites can be boosted up quickly
  • Easily scalable according to our performance requirements
  • Easy integration with other Azure services
  • You only pay for what you need
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  • Support has always been a positive experience
  • When doing initial cdn shopping it was nice to talk to a person to understand how pricing and structure worked compared to others where you just had to use a calculator.
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Cons
  • For the longest time they didn't have a robust SDK. They have one now, but it could be better.
  • The different flavors of Azure CDN (Akamai, Verizon, etc) have different costs, but not well differentiated features. Might be confusing to new users.
  • I'm not overly familiar with it, but AWS does have a programmability in their CDN offering (Lambda @ Edge) and Azure doesn't seem to have an equivalent (Azure Functions is region-specific).
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  • This is quite expensive tool.
  • Since this is a technical tool, there is a steep learning curve.
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Usability
I give it 9/10 rating because it solved my problem by Caching my website content on global servers to load faster.
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Support Rating
Great support from the team whenever we're stuck. Very proactive in resolving issues and also making changes as per the requirements of the organization.
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Alternatives Considered
We did not evaluate any other CDN's before we selected Azure. We heavily use Azure for our development and infrastructure efforts so choosing the Azure CDN was easy. The only thing we compared it to was standing up a Windows Server VM and pointing a CDN URL to it allowing it to serve as a file server, which was much more cumbersome.
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Pricing was always competitive, but when it appeared someone else could do better Cachefly always matched
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Return on Investment
  • Azure CDN reduced origin instance load by removing the need to constantly serve large numbers of static files, meaning applications can be deployed with smaller/fewer instances.
  • Azure CDN reduces apparent load times to customers by serving cached files out of POPs in the local region of those clients, instead of requiring those clients to make multiple, lengthy requests through to the origin servers.
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  • It is not expensive.
  • Through its APIs, I am in a position of building the custom analytics in real-time.
  • This tool helps us to enhance the productivity.
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ScreenShots

CacheFly CDN Screenshots

Screenshot of Configure your CDN using presets  or fully customise - it's your choice.Screenshot of Monitor Performance in portal or connect API to your own reporting systemScreenshot of CacheFly makes account administration made easy.Screenshot of Your CDN Service DetailsScreenshot of CacheFly Configuration Options