Compare Fastly vs. LightCDN

Today's top edge cloud platform empowers developers, connects with customers, and grows your business. Our edge cloud platform is designed to enhance your existing technology and teams. Our edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer towards your users -- at a network's edge -- to improve the performance of your websites and apps. Fastly's highly-programmable CDN allows you to personalize delivery right at the edge. Your users will be delighted to have the content they need at their fingertips. Our powerful POPs are powered by solid-state drives (SSDs), and are located in well-connected locations around world. They allow us to keep more content in cache for longer periods of time, resulting in fewer trips back to the source. Instant Purge and batch purging using surrogate keys allow you to cache and invalidate dynamic content in a matter of minutes. You can always serve up current headlines, inventory, and weather forecasts.

LightCDN serves as an efficient content delivery network aimed at boosting website speed and improving the overall user experience by optimizing content distribution. With a robust infrastructure, LightCDN boasts an impressive edge network capacity exceeding 30 Tbps, facilitating swift content transfer across five continents, prominently including vital areas such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. The platform enhances availability and performance through its dedicated server nodes equipped with Xeon Gold processors and SSD storage, contributing to superior delivery outcomes. Additionally, LightCDN offers a wide range of security features, such as URL signing, geographic restrictions, web application firewalls, and DDoS protection right at the network's edge, ensuring stable website operations without incurring further costs. Notably, LightCDN has a strong focus on establishing unique nodes in developing regions and collaborates with numerous ISPs globally, enabling it to achieve an average global latency of just 30 milliseconds for content delivery, which is particularly advantageous for users seeking fast and reliable access. Through these strategic initiatives, LightCDN continues to reshape the landscape of content delivery.