Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review OnApp CDN is great for virtually any site with a desire or requirement to offload processing resources to a content delivery network in general. The OnApp CDN is one of the largest, if not largest CDNs on the planet and is well equipped to handle virtually any type of file distribution, including video. Video distribution POPs on the OnApp CDN are less available because each host that offers video has special requirements they may or may not be willing to get involved with. If you plan to distribute video on OnApp CDN first check if the number of POPs available for serving video suit your needs
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Ease of setup. You can be CDN enabled within a few minutes. Huge CDN network rivals any other out there. Competitive pricing due to web hosts who own OnApp CDN Edge Servers competing for traffic on their CDN POPs. Read full review Cons WAF is hard to configure. No comprehensive rate limiting without a pricey upgrade. Account access controls are extremely limited. Read full review There really is nothing I can think of. It's simple and intuitive to use after your first instruction on the system. Read full review Alternatives Considered It’s the fastest and most configurable.
Read full review We compared VMware for its virtualization capabilities and ended up deciding on OnApp as the UI was more intuitive for less technical support staff, which meant that our customers would have more staff available to help them with cloud related issues. We also checked our
Akamai specifically for CDN however again the OnApp platform seemed simpler and less expensive to leverage, and with the added benefit that we had more control of the CDN 'in-house' than using a fully third party platform
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review OnApp in general has been a good investment, though in the early days this was a questionable result as stability was nothing like what it is today. Things have gotten much better over the years and I would anticipate OnApp to generate ROI so long as customers are looking for cloud and CDN solutions in general. I'm not sure that investing in OnApp as a hosting provider specifically for the CDN capability will generate any positive return, but the OnApp system as a whole has the features required that most should be able to make a return on. Read full review ScreenShots