Cloudimage vs. Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

Use it if you have a ton of source images and need many transformations. Don't use it if you only want to serve a few image[s] to a very very large number of users (CDN bandwidth costs)

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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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• Image manipulation
• Connecting to self hosted servers
• Delivers images to the browser

• Comprehensive API.
• Feature-rich UI.
• Excellent documentation.
• Fine-grained custom VCL.

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• Having tiers based either more on source cache / CDN bandwidth (for some persons)

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• Setup can be difficult -- but only because the service is so robust and provides so many features.
• Minimum spend is $50/month, even if you are not using the service enough to have spent the $50.

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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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We have a single contact point, but CI has been immaculate with their support offering. Instantaneous and comprehensive.

We chose Cloudimage for the value for money, and the ability to link with our own hosting.

Fastly is a great choice for CDN vendor when performance and has the ability to quickly invalidate an asset from all POPs very quickly. It shines in use cases that require media delivery, like video. Fastly also provides a highly-optimized way to handle logical operations at the edge, meaning that, for example, quick authorization checks can be handled without having to work with the origin server.

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• Primary been a time saver!
• Saves us rolling our own solution.
• Increases conversion of the end user on average.

• While I was at Wanelo we were able to put Fastly in front of the growing web app, and selectively cache end points to improve stability and performance. In the meantime we rewrote the app completely in Ruby. We wouldn’t have been able to do that without Fastly.

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