Akamai

For high traffic sites you want your pages to be cached. Akamai does a good job at that. Also they do great at protecting your site against any attack like DDoS or phishing attack.

Recently launched feature of fast purge is nice as it purges lage under 5 seconds

Sometimes purging pages don’t go through. It very rarely happens but that’s the only thing I noticed.

The UI of the site can use some clean up as well.

It’s a good service. In a way money well spent

Here are few -

1. Site is protected against various attacks

2. Pages pull up fast and we have great uptime as they are cached

3. Lot of data monitoring is possible

They have an amazing number of nodes all over the world, speeding up access to resources needed to load our sites dramatically

Managing permissions is almost a dark art, requiring numerous tickets and teams from Akami to be involved, at least that's my experience with them

Look at Azure/Amazon CDN options instead

Slow site load speeds on the West Coast (Our datacenter is in Toronto

Akamai is good at Global delivery.

API support is excellent.

Hidden costs is a big minus.

- They charge extra for their internal traffic(mid gress if they enable tier distribution serivce which we came to know after they billed us!

- Burst charges

- Overage charges

CDN delivery

Can be configured, but takes a lot of time to figure out how - not as easy as they try to make it seem.

Way more complicated to set up analytics then it should be. Still seems not very advanced; especially when asking specific questions about the product in trying to configure as needed.

Akamai can be useful; but the implementation can be tricky so need to be very hands on with requirements and making sure everything is implemented as needed. At times, need to really be pushy as the vendor may try to convince you everything is ok. That said, it feels all video analytics tools are still in the early stages - so take your pick depending on needs.

Video views. Can get video views IF set up as needed

First, a disclaimer: I am a product/project manager, not an expert in CDNs and cloud hosting, so I cannot comment on deeply technical aspects of the Akamai ecosystem. But having used Akamai as a CDN on several highly-trafficked global websites, I have always had a good experience of Akamai as a robust, highly sophisticated system to ensure resilient global delivery.

I particularly appreciate the customer service provided from onboarding to operations, and the commitment to customer success. There is a structured process to take clients through the service, to ensure that configuration is managed correctly, and that all possible optimisations are adopted.

I have also found the Akamai online portal easy to use to execute simple configurations and purge the Akamai cache - simple enough for non-technical users such as myself to feel they have control over content appearing around the world.

I have had no specific problems with Akamai.

We use Akamai to deliver web content to large global audiences, taking the load off our origin servers and ensuring efficient, controlled content distribution.