We use the solution to protect front-end delivery networks. It helps us with caching and firewall purposes.
Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
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Protects the network efficiently and has a good technical support
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution efficiently works for protecting the network and caching. Also, it has a convenient log management system.
What needs improvement?
The solution's pricing could be better.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support is excellent.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup process is straightforward. It takes half an hour to complete. It doesn't require any code for image optimization. We have to tick boxes for the necessary features. Also, it requires two executives for deployment and maintenance.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented the solution in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is an expensive solution. It costs around $75,000 for a yearly subscription.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend the solution to others and rate it a ten.
Feature rich CDN
What do you like best about the product?
Fastly is very performant and the VCL is very configurable.
What do you dislike about the product?
In some installs, the configuration has been difficult
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Looking for a highly performing CDN that has robust features at the edge.
Fastly provides a great CDN service
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility and reliability Fastly offers make them a great CDN choice
What do you dislike about the product?
Fastly requires a bit more technical experience to fine tune the CDN than other providers due to it being managed Varnish clusters, however it is very powerful once you get past the learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We primarily use Fastly as our user facing CDN and content cache.
Been using Fastly for more than 5 years. Very happy with their product.
What do you like best about the product?
They are excellent at the fundamentals of Edge caching.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a straightforward way to run tests against VCL updates before rolling them out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are serving pages to our users faster.
Possibly my favorite vendor, and that's saying something...
What do you like best about the product?
Featureful, modern, easy to use, AND very reasonably priced? What's not to like? And their support is top-notch, too - when I've opened a support ticket, I've never felt like I'm getting a level 1 tech who's just reading from a manual, I've always gotten somebody who really knows their stuff. I feel good about using Fastly in a way that I never felt good about using other CDNs.
What do you dislike about the product?
API key management could be more polished.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using Fastly to make our site faster and more available around the world, and for almost anything Layer 7 that you can think of - custom redirects at the edge, geo-localized content and geofencing, protecting services with IAP, even image postprocessing, all available as managed services instead of software that we have to maintain ourselves.
Great CDN service - works well across US/Europe and outperforms our expectations!
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent After Sales Technical Support - helped us easily migrate from our existing services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing for non US/Europe can be pricey but this is true of a lot of CDN's.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast Scalable service, ability to handle proper Origin Shielding and provide a resilient Origin failover.
Great features and service.
What do you like best about the product?
Simple UI. Great service team and features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Terraform support is good but not great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fastly has improved our user experience by providing edge caching and waf protection.
Best-in-class CDN
What do you like best about the product?
- High-performance
- Brilliant feature set
- Brilliant feature set
What do you dislike about the product?
- No support for web-sockets
- No peering with AWS
- No peering with AWS
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Media delivery
Amazing service. Great support team. Would recommend to anyone that wants a best in class CDN.
What do you like best about the product?
Support is amazing. Best in class service and support. This is leaps and bounds better than any other CDN service we've used in the past, from a technology perspective and from a support perspective.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I can think of. This is just a great service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted the best in class CDN for our ecommerce sites. Fastly checks all the boxes. Extensinve network of servers. Easy to use tools. Integrated well with our ecommerce platform. Nearly instant cache refreshing.
A CDN that lives up to its name: FAST!
What do you like best about the product?
At Agility CMS we use Fastly in front of our file assets and APIs. For the API we need to be able to instantly invalidate cache when data changes at the origin. Only Fastly was able to accomplish this worldwide in our tests in under 200ms consistently.
Also, as a baseline, requests to the CDN are really fast in terms of response time - usually under 100ms, often under 50ms.
Also, as a baseline, requests to the CDN are really fast in terms of response time - usually under 100ms, often under 50ms.
What do you dislike about the product?
The language to customize Fastly is VCL, which is based on varnish. While this is incredibly powerful as a language, its not something we were comfortable with. We had to learn VCL before we could even begin to take advantage of all Fastly has to offer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Fastly, we have a fast system that our customers can rely on to always be up-to-date with the latest content, delivered incredibly fast.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get connected to the Fastly team if you have any questions. They are incredibly knowledgeable and very helpful, especially with those tough technical problems and questions.
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