🆚 Fastly vs. Rackspace CDN

📈 Fastly is much more popular than Rackspace CDN.
🌍 Fastly is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Rackspace CDN is particularly popular in the United States.

Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Fastly

Rackspace CDN

Type

Content delivery network

About

Fastly is a global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world.

It operates a network of over 120 points of presence with more than 460 Tbps of connected global capacity, and offers built-in DDoS and web application firewall protection, origin shielding to reduce backend load, instant purging of cached content, and fine-grained API control over HTTP headers and caching rules.

Rackspace CDN is a content delivery network service powered by the Akamai network that accelerates website content and media delivery by caching assets on over 200 edge nodes.

It provides origin-pull acceleration for entire sites, pre-fetching for dynamic content, origin protection against DDoS, multiple origin support including non-Rackspace servers, and selective subdomain caching.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Website

fastly.com #142

docs.rackspace.com

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Usage $50/month + usage price

Basic $1,500/month

Starter $6,000/month

Ultimate Custom

Free version ❌

Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Fastly CDN is 64 times more popular than Rackspace CDN.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Fastly is more popular than Rackspace CDN in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Japan

Canada

Australia

Brazil

France

Spain

Switzerland

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the CDN category.

🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🔥 18th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Fastly is more popular than Rackspace CDN in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Software/Hardware

Entertainment

Internet Services

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#15

#22

#23

#43

#45

Name

Rank

#185

#307

#449

#854

#1,376