When it comes to CDN pricing, it is
important to figure out what payment model your future CDN offers, be it a monthly contract or a
pay-as-you-go model. Additionally, each CDN's cost is divided into several different target
areas, offering you an insight into why a specific service costs a specific sum of money. For
example, here are some of the bigger contributors to a CDN's cost as a whole:
- CDN set-up costs;
- Traffic costs for your website;
- Minimum monthly payment, if applicable;
- Specific features that are outlined in your contract with a CDN (customer support, data
centers, SSL certificates, etc.), and more
One of the biggest advantages of a free CDN is that you can just get it whenever you want –
and testing it out for yourself might be a great way to find out if it suits you or not.
However, most of the time a customer quickly realizes how many important areas are not
particularly covered by free CDNs.
The first example here is server distribution. It is
extremely important for any growing service to be able to load quickly from pretty much any
place in the world – which makes an even CDN server distribution a priority of the highest
level. Unfortunately, free CDNs often do not have the scale nor the server numbers to cover a
lot of areas at once – or some of the servers would be straight-up unavailable for you if your
CDN offers both a paid and a free plan to its users.
Our second example is customer
support – a fast customer support response time is pretty much unheard of when it comes to a
free CDN. Most of the premium CDN services prioritize their paid users and pride themselves on
fast and efficient customer support as a whole. There is no such priority for free CDN users,
since everyone is on the same "free" level, and this often turns solving a simple problem into a
long waiting game.
As such, the benefits of a paid CDN far outweigh its costs –
especially when it comes to some of the best CDNs on the market that are already cheap on their
own. This is where CDN resellers come in, such as SpaceCDN, offering multiple different CDN
provider services (Verizon, UCDN, HighWinds, AHCDN and CDNNOW) with some of the lowest CDN
pricing on the market – offering you the ability to pick the one that suits your use case the
most.
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