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We performed a comparison between Fastly and Verizon EdgeCast based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks.""Compute@Edge features are valuable to me.""The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly.""Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly.""Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute.""Its initial setup process is straightforward."

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"The Rules Engine V4 is the most valuable feature.""The product is easy to use and easy to implement.""It's super easy to use and integrate with."

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Cons
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement.""It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production.""Support is not that great.""Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned.""The product should provide improved bot detection and management.""The solution's pricing could be better."

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"We could not create more than 15 custom rules.""The web interface of the Verizon Edgecast portal is very old. It's not user-friendly, slow, and it is missing some valuable features like the ability to make bulk changes.""In the next release, I would like to see more global endpoints for their CDN and a lower price."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
  • "I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
  • "Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "The pricing has been very competitive."
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  • "When I modeled it out, we are spending somewhere between $600 to $800 a month with Verizon EdgeCast."
  • "Be careful about the options because to have all the features can be very expensive."
  • "The product is cheaper compared to other solutions."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly.
    Top Answer:Stronger analytics would be helpful like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused… more »
    Top Answer:The product is easy to use and easy to implement.
    Top Answer:There were a few limitations in the product. While evaluating it, we found a couple of gaps. Rate Limiting features were not completely developed. The new feature requests used to take a little… more »
    Ranking
    7th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    1,400
    Comparisons
    1,164
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    591
    Rating
    8.6
    11th
    out of 34 in CDN
    Views
    1,237
    Comparisons
    903
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    491
    Rating
    7.0
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    Also Known As
    EdgeCast
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    Overview
    Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.
    EdgeCast is the world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network. EdgeCast helps companies dramatically accelerate delivery of static and dynamic web content, significantly improving the end user experience regardless of location.
    Sample Customers
    Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Media Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while Verizon EdgeCast is ranked 11th in CDN with 3 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Verizon EdgeCast is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easy-to-use and flexible product that protects from volumetric threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Verizon EdgeCast writes "The product is easy to use and easy to implement, but we have to raise new feature requests frequently because the product is new". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and Amazon CloudFront, whereas Verizon EdgeCast is most compared with Akamai, Windows Azure CDN, Edgio Global CDN, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door.

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