Competitor feature comparison
Peakhour offers you a richer and more comprehensive feature set, with no additional/hidden fees or complex pricing. You will get better results at a lower cost with our service.
Many customers have migrated from our competitors to us for exactly this reason.
| Peakhour | Cloudflare | Fastly | |
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| Performance | |||
| Network | |||
| Global anycast DNS |
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| Australian data centres | Business plan and above if viewing site over Telstra/Optus | ||
| Tiered caching | Tier 1 caching with add on Argo Smart Routing |
Origin Shielding |
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| Origin connection pooling |
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| Load balancing/Multi Origin | |||
| Enable load balancing | Starts at $5 a month for 2 origins | Price on application | |
| Round robin balancing | Starts at $5 a month for 2 origins | Price on application | |
| Sticky balancing | Starts at $5 a month for 2 origins | Price on application | |
| Geographic balancing | $10 a month | Price on application | |
| Scriptable | Starts at $5 a month for 2 origins | Price on application | |
| Caching | |||
| Global CDN |
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| Automatic static content caching | |||
| Serve stale | |||
| Instant cache purge | |||
| Custom cache tag | Enterprise plan only | ||
| Custom cache keys | Enterprise plan only | ||
| Purge all | |||
| Purge regex | |||
| Bypass cache on cookie | Business plan or higher | ||
| Edge Server Includes (ESI) | Enterprise plan only | ||
| Optimisations | |||
| Asynchronous javascript loading | |||
| Automatic image compression | Pro plan and above | Price on application | |
| Image Structural Similarity (SSIM) compression | |||
| AVIF Support | Only available via image API | ||
| Automatic image resizing | |||
| Automatic format conversion | Pro Plan and above supports WebP for supporting browsers | Price on application, requires url changes | |
| Automatic WebP for supported browsers | Pro plan and above | Price on application | |
| Image manipulation via API | Starts on business plan | Price on application | |
| HTML minification | |||
| CSS minification | |||
| JS minification | |||
| Critical CSS insertion | |||
| DNS preconnect insertion | |||
| Security | |||
| SSL | |||
| Shared | |||
| Dedicated |
Free Lets Encrypt certificate or free bring your own. |
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| HTTPS rewrites |
Via Header |
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| HSTS | |||
| Web application firewall (WAF) | |||
| Inline WAF | |||
| OWASP top 10 | Pro Plan and above | Price on Application | |
| Virtual patching | Pro Plan and above, Cloudflare rules | Price on Application | |
| Known attacker blocklists | |||
| Bot blocklist |
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| Customer IP blocklist | Limited by plan | ||
| Bot management | Price on Application | ||
| Rate limiting | $0.5 per 10k good requests | ||