In a continuing effort to get the best combination of services and pricing, I often review my choice of provider. While it is a pain to migrate services, things do change over time.
As a small site, I want the benefits of a CDN, but the monthly cost of one is not within my budget. Which is why I explore pay-per-use CDNs. Metering means that I can prepay for a few GBs of traffic and it can last me a while. I wrote about this back in 2013, when I was talking about how new providers intrigued me.
After some problems with other incumbents, I was once again looking for new options, and came upon KeyCDN, which is a Swiss CDN that is well regarded so far. I’ve been using them for about six months now. They offer $0.04 per GB for the first 10TB. And in the last six months, they’ve continued to add features.
Here are a few of their features:
- Pay Per Use Pricing – So no minimum monthly costs
- A Free Trial(although most of these services have that)
- Unlimited Zones that can be aliased as subdomains on your site.
- SSL – Shared or Custom SSL. Shared SSL is them using their certificate. If you want to alias the CDN zone as a subdomain on your site, you need to buy a certificate from them or supply your own.
- SPDY Support
- Push Zones(if you want them to store the content, not just pull and cache it from your site)
- Cost is $0.90/GB per month.
- They added rsync support after I signed up, in addition to FTP, allowing you to sync your static site to them if you want.
- Export log files to your own syslog server
- An API if you want to control your zones
They keep adding more features….or I keep noticing them. Until I started writing this, I didn’t know they had added syslog support. Which brings me to my only real criticism of KeyCDN. The last time I looked intently, I don’t think I saw the feature. So they certainly could be better at conveying new features to me.
Whenever I’ve needed help, they have been prompt in their response and have worked with me.
But there is so much here I don’t take advantage of that I wish to. This is a basic review, but I may go into more detail in future. I’d like to try to play with their API, as they have a PHP library on Github and I’ve been working on my PHP skills as part of maintaining this site, which runs WordPress(written in PHP).
So, give them a try…if you do, try my links…I wouldn’t mind the extra few credits in my account. If you have any questions, please send a message or leave a comment.
Responsible Disclosure: I am a customer of KeyCDN, and I am using my affiliate link, which provides me with extra CDN credit. However, my decision to finally get around to reviewing them is due to the responsiveness of their support and their feature set.
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