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The most recognizable CDN
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai has a large network of edge servers (they claim to be within 1 hop of 85% of users), and they do provide very fast load times to end users. They also provide some useful analytics about traffic and site visitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their console isn't very intuitive, and they are a little slow to provision resources behind the scenes - certificates can take days, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a good CDN, they reduce load on our servers and speed up delivery to the end user.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Akamai is a good CDN, but they are not very agile. You definitely have to plan out changes to your properties in advance.
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The leader in the CDN business
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, making the Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers. It's one of the most reliable CDN's in the market and they consistently perform at or near the top in every region of the world
What do you dislike about the product?
Users don't have granular control over the security policies like on other, newer CDN services, however this can be a good thing if you dont want to manage it on your own or dont have the expertise to do so
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the caching technology in one of our websites and it is really good, so if the server ever goes down, users get to experience a cached version of it
Recommendations to others considering the product:
On a large scale Akamai is really great for larger quantities of data, but if you are not there yet you can use other CDNs like CloudFlare
I have used Akamai for Video Delivery as a CDN
What do you like best about the product?
The performance of Akamai is great and so is the coverage.
What do you dislike about the product?
They have aggressive sales people and try to auto renew you without telling you when your contract is up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Video delivery performance is the problem I am solving, using Akamai speeds this up considerably.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you review the contracts in great detail, and you establish a good relationship with your account manager. They tend to change a lot so you may want to have regular meetings with your account manager. Also be careful they auto renew contracts without giving much notice.
Super enterprise, lots of features, frustrating UX
What do you like best about the product?
Does literally everything we might need it to do
What do you dislike about the product?
Convoluted APIs and automation interface
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Serves our pages over a CDN, works fine
Great CDN with lots of performance improvement tools
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and other tools that Akamai provide, such as Ion and Image Converter. They really leverage the concept of faster content delivery by providing great tools to optimize delivery and performance for end user.
What do you dislike about the product?
Control panel is very ugly and sometimes hard to use. It really needs a better interface and become lightweight,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Caching content to provide a always available static website and usage of Akamai WAF to protect our endpoints.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Akamai has a great support and features. It is easy to configure and provide a lot of features to optimize not only content caching but also end user performance (view Akamai Ion). It is worth the price payed,
Our choice for document and image storage for our customers
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is our prefered choice for content delivery, we have a number of customer that we have written bespoke software for and every occasion Akamai has provided us with exactly what we want, it is easy to use and fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial configuration of Akamai is difficult to understand and the API a bit difficult to configure. We also had initial problems with large images and videos failing to load, which required some additional development work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With writing bespoke software for a number of clients we wanted a solution that gave us all the requirements that could be used for every client requiring a CDN. Akamai provides this and so far it is the only one we use, making our development much easier.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Akamai is a great solution for providing delivery of content to your web applications, it is the product of choice and has fulfilled all our requirements. It makes storing and serving large amount of content much simpler than storing on your own servers
Akamai Review(current customer0
What do you like best about the product?
Global server presence. Reduces latency.
Used for downloads so downloads are expected to be from the closes local server.
Used for downloads so downloads are expected to be from the closes local server.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kind of expensive to use. The variable pricing model is not conducive to our business. Would prefer to have fixed costs for unlimited use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Distributing apps globally in the fasted and most relevant way possible.
2. We have benefited from Akamai's uptime promise and download speeds, even under the most demanding conditions,
2. We have benefited from Akamai's uptime promise and download speeds, even under the most demanding conditions,
cache static file for the program
What do you like best about the product?
good at configuration on what need to cache and more training material, It has all the configuration history and easily to rollback and re-configuration
What do you dislike about the product?
Haven't found how much time will take when clear the cache one time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
cache all the static file used in program, such as images/css/js/html; It's really fast for the web access performance for a global web site
Recommendations to others considering the product:
more configuration and training materials online; The GUI is easy to use;
Akamai static content hosting service
What do you like best about the product?
Upload the content once and distribution across the network is fast and seamless. Also the CMS dashboard is very helpful and very easy to use even as a beginner into CDN products
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much really. The only concern at the time was the cost but Akamai CDN was a good service which justifies the cost to management.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Content hosting/distribution across the US region. Benefit was enormous since the distribution/availability was robust and seamless.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very good and robust service and infrastructure. Cost may be a little high but it is well worth it in the long term.
Best Tool to keep your CDN Up and Running
What do you like best about the product?
Provides a great insight on how your data is consumed. Provides your Commerce application a personalized and optimized experience to the customers. They are the best in business with exceptional service. Provides tools that can overcome mobile application performance. And, its quite easy to set it up.
What do you dislike about the product?
They are not cheap; especially if you want to consult with them. And, some of their services require quite a good technical person.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using it on the eCommerce platform which can provide a customizable and optimized experience to customers using both Desktop and mobile platform. It helped us get an insight of the customer base that accesses various categories/pages at different times.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a CDN management tool that has reporting features, Akamai is a great tool. It provides a great set of tools for mobile experience which is where eCommerce is heading to. You will easily claim the fee with a much more stable/optimized application.
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