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    Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFastly, headquartered in San Francisco, offers the Fastly Edge Cloud Computing, Content Delivery Network (CDN) (formerly Fastly Deliver@Edge). Priced by bandwidth in gigabytes and number of file requests, Fastly supports image optimization, video and streaming, load balancing, and cloud security via web application firewall (WAF) and DDoS protection. Additionally, Fastly is available as a managed CDN.

    $0

    per 10,000 requests

    Upsun

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlatform.sh helps companies of all sizes, from SaaS entrepreneurs looking to build, run, and scale their websites and web applications.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    Fastly Edge Cloud PlatformUpsun
    Editions & Modules
    Requests
    $0
    per 10,000 requests
    Next 10TB
    $0.08
    per GB/per reigon
    First 10TB
    $0.12
    per GB/per reigon
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    Pricing Offerings
    Fastly Edge Cloud PlatformUpsun
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Platform-as-a-Service
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    Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
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    Ratings
    Upsun
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Scalability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Fastly Edge Cloud PlatformUpsun
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Fastly Edge Cloud PlatformUpsun
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fastly
    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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    Upsun
    In our organisation we are the only team that uses Platform.sh to host any site. This was a cost effective way for us as we were using Acquia Cloud earlier for these websites. We mostly use Platform.sh for those sites which are always in development as it is simpler and faster to handle these operations in Platform.sh. Then we do a lift and shift to Acquia as we move more towards the go live and post production maintenance side.
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    Pros
    Fastly
    • 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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    Upsun
    • As this is a PaaS it mitigates the complexities of a Cloud infrastructure like Acquia
    • We are easily able to integrate our sites with different technologies like Python and Rest
    • Helps us in providing Continuous Development cloud deployment hosting solution
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    Cons
    Fastly
    • WAF is hard to configure.
    • No comprehensive rate limiting without a pricey upgrade.
    • Account access controls are extremely limited.
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    Upsun
    • Platform.sh is not for beginners in my opinion. It has a good amount of learning curve in my opinion.
    • As this is a PaaS, teams habituated with cloud infrastructure may miss the server side support from their cloud teams. I believe you will have to work on server bugs more on your own.
    • During normal maintenance periods, integrations may fail if you are working on your sites in that time, in my experience.
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    Usability
    Fastly
    Fastly Edge Cloud Platform is a powerful tool with robust capabilities, but it requires deep technical knowledge to integrate effectively into existing applications. While its performance and features are excellent, the lack of a user-friendly interface and the need for advanced configuration can make it challenging for teams without experienced developers.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fastly
    It’s the fastest and most configurable.
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    Upsun
    In our team we use Platform.sh mostly while sites are in developmental phase. Then we do a lift and shift to either Acquia or AWS depending on the type of sites we have. Platform.sh is really cost effective and more fluid in terms of Continuous Development hence the usage. After said development is done, we generally lift and shift to Acquia for more content heavy sites and to AWS for more transaction oriented sites.
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    Return on Investment
    Fastly
    • 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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    Upsun
    • Continuous development for sites in build has been fluid
    • Platform.sh is really cost effective when comparing to AWS or Acquia Cloud
    • On the other side, lack of server side support demands a big learning curve from its users in my opinion.
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